This list of LGBT ambassadors of the United States includes ambassadors of the United States who publicly identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or otherwise part of the LGBT community at the time of their appointment. This list includes ambassadors assigned to individual nations of the world, to international organizations (also known as permanent representatives), and ambassadors-at-large. [1]
Ambassadors are nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. [2] Ambassadors serve "at the pleasure of the president", meaning they can be dismissed at any time.
Name | Accreditation | Credentials presented | Mission end | President(s) | Ref |
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James Hormel | ![]() | September 8, 1999 | January 1, 2001 | Bill Clinton | [3] [4] |
Michael Guest | ![]() | September 24, 2001 | July 8, 2004 | George W. Bush | [5] |
Mark Dybul | President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief | August 11, 2006 | January 20, 2009 | [6] | |
David Huebner | ![]() | December 4, 2009 | January 17, 2014 | Barack Obama | [7] |
![]() | February 23, 2010 | January 17, 2014 | |||
Dan Baer | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | September 10, 2013 | January 20, 2017 | [3] [4] | |
David Pressman | United Nations Security Council | September 14, 2014 | January 20, 2017 | [8] | |
James Costos | ![]() | September 24, 2013 | January 18, 2017 | [3] [4] | |
![]() | April 4, 2014 | January 18, 2017 | |||
Rufus Gifford | ![]() | September 13, 2013 | January 20, 2017 | [3] [4] | |
Wally Brewster | ![]() | December 9, 2013 | January 20, 2017 | [3] [4] | |
John Berry | ![]() | September 25, 2013 | September 20, 2016 | [3] [4] | |
Howard Dean Pittman | ![]() | November 23, 2014 | November 4, 2019 | [9] [10] [11] | |
Ted Osius | ![]() | December 16, 2014 | November 4, 2017 | [3] [4] | |
Donald Trump | |||||
Ric Grenell | ![]() | May 8, 2018 | June 1, 2020 | [3] [4] | |
Randy Berry | ![]() | October 25, 2018 | October 2, 2022 | [12] [13] | |
Joe Biden | |||||
Eric Nelson | ![]() | February 19, 2019 | February 1, 2022 | Donald Trump | |
Joe Biden | |||||
Jeff Daigle | ![]() | September 10, 2019 | present | Donald Trump | |
Joe Biden | |||||
Robert Gilchrist | ![]() | February 4, 2020 | Donald Trump | ||
Joe Biden | |||||
Scott Miller | ![]() | January 11, 2022 | |||
![]() | February 16, 2022 | ||||
Erik Ramanathan | ![]() | January 20, 2022 | [14] | ||
Christopher Lamora | ![]() | March 21, 2022 | [15] | ||
David Pressman | ![]() | September 14, 2022 |