List of ambassadors nominated by Donald Trump (2025–2029)

This is a list of individuals announced as presumptive nominees to serve as United States ambassadors by Donald Trump, during his 2nd term in office (2025–2029).

Key

CD, or career diplomats, denotes ambassadors who were appointed from the foreign service.

PA, or political appointees, denotes ambassadors who were not appointed from the foreign service.

Nominees for ambassadors to foreign states

Office	Ambassador	Background	Assumed office	Left office
Ambassador to Argentina	Peter Lamelas [1]	PA	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
Ambassador to Austria	Arthur Fisher [2]
Ambassador to the Bahamas	Herschel Walker [3]
Ambassador to Belgium	Bill White [4]
Ambassador to Canada	Pete Hoekstra [5]
Ambassador to Chile	Brandon Judd [6]
Ambassador to China	David Perdue [7]
Ambassador to Colombia	Dan Newlin [1]
Ambassador to Croatia	Nicole McGraw [8]
Ambassador to the Dominican Republic	Leah Campos [2]
Ambassador to Denmark	Ken Howery [9]
Ambassador to France	Charles Kushner [10]
Ambassador to Estonia	Roman Pipko [11]
Ambassador to Greece	Kimberly Guilfoyle [12]
Ambassador to the Holy See	Brian Burch [13]
Ambassador to Ireland	Edward Sharp Walsh [14]
Ambassador to Israel	Mike Huckabee [15]
Ambassador to Italy	Tilman Fertitta [16]
Ambassador to Japan	George Edward Glass [2]
Ambassador to Luxembourg	Stacey Feinberg [2]
Ambassador to Malta	Somers Farkas [17]
Ambassador to Mexico	Ronald D. Johnson [18]
Ambassador to the Netherlands	Joe Popolo [19]
Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa	Jared Novelly [20]
Ambassador to Panama	Kevin Marino Cabrera [21]
Ambassador to Portugal	John Arrigo [22]
Ambassador to Spain	Benjamin Leon [23]
Ambassador to Sweden	Christine Toretti [24]
Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein	Callista Gingrich [25]
Ambassador to Turkey	Tom Barrack [26]
Ambassador to the United Kingdom	Warren Stephens [27]
Ambassador to Uruguay	Lou Rinaldi [2]

Nominees for ambassadors to international organizations

United States Mission to the United Nations

Office	Ambassador	Background	Assumed office	Left office
Representative to the United Nations and Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador)	Elise Stefanik [28]	PA	Awaiting Senate Confirmation

Other international organizations

Office	Ambassador	Background	Assumed office	Left office
Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (with the rank of ambassador)	Matthew Whitaker [29]	PA	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (with the rank of ambassador)	Leandro Rizutto Jr. [30]

Trade Representatives

Office	Ambassador	Background	Assumed office	Left office
United States Trade Representative (with the rank of ambassador)	Jamieson Greer [31]	PA	Awaiting Senate Confirmation

Other positions with rank of ambassador

Office	Ambassador	Background	Assumed office	Left office
Ambassador to Hollywood (with the rank of ambassador)	Mel Gibson [32]	PA	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Sylvester Stallone [33]
	Jon Voight [34]
Chief of Protocol (with the rank of ambassador)	Monica Crowley [35]
Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs (with the rank of ambassador)	Adam Boehler [36]

Special envoys, representatives, and coordinators

Office	Appointee	Background	Assumed office	Left office
Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions	Richard Grenell [14]	PA	January 20, 2025
Special Envoy for Latin America	Mauricio Claver-Carone [37]
Special Envoy for Middle East	Steve Witkoff [38]
Deputy Special Envoy for Middle East	Morgan Ortagus [39]
Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia	Keith Kellogg [40]
Special Envoy to the United Kingdom	Mark Burnett [41]

See also

• List of ambassadors appointed by Donald Trump (2017–2021)
• Political appointments of the second Trump administration

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