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

This is a list of United States ambassadors appointed by the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, during his second term in office.

Color key

•   Announced appointees not yet sent to the Senate.
•   Denotes nomination pending before a Senate committee.
•   Denotes nomination reported favorably by a Senate committee, pending confirmation by the full Senate
•   Confirmed appointees who are political appointees (rather than career foreign service officers)
•   Confirmed appointees who are Career Members of the Senior Executive Service or Senior Foreign Service.

CD, or career diplomats, denotes ambassadors who were appointed from the U.S. 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]		April 29, 2025 (Confirmed April 9, 2025, 60–37) [RC 1]
Ambassador to Chile	Brandon Judd [6]
Ambassador to China	David Perdue [7]		May 16, 2025 (Confirmed April 29, 2025, 67–29) [RC 2]
Ambassador to Colombia	Dan Newlin [1]
Ambassador to Costa Rica	Melinda Hildebrand [8]
Ambassador to Croatia	Nicole McGraw [9]
Ambassador to the Czech Republic	Nicholas Merrick
Ambassador to Denmark	Ken Howery [10]
Ambassador to the Dominican Republic	Leah Campos [2]
Ambassador to Estonia	Roman Pipko [11]
Ambassador to Finland	Howard Brodie
Ambassador to France Ambassador to Monaco	Charles Kushner [12]		TBD (Confirmed May 19, 2025, 51–45) [RC 3]
Ambassador to Greece	Kimberly Guilfoyle [13]
Ambassador to the Holy See	Brian Burch [14]
Ambassador to Ireland	Edward Sharp Walsh [15]
Ambassador to Israel	Mike Huckabee [16]		April 21, 2025 (Confirmed April 9, 2025, 53–46) [RC 4]
Ambassador to Italy Ambassador to San Marino	Tilman Fertitta [17]		May 6, 2025 (Confirmed April 29, 2025, 83–14) [RC 5]
Ambassador to Japan	George Edward Glass [2]		April 18, 2025 (Confirmed April 8, 2025, 66–32) [RC 6]
Ambassador to Kuwait	Amer Ghalib [18]
Ambassador to Latvia	Melissa Argyros
Ambassador to Lebanon	Michel Issa [19]
Ambassador to Luxembourg	Stacey Feinberg [2]
Ambassador to Malta	Somers Farkas [20]
Ambassador to Mexico	Ronald D. Johnson [21]		May 19, 2025 (Confirmed April 9, 2025, 49–46) [RC 7]
Ambassador to Morocco	Duke Buchan [22]
Ambassador to Namibia	John Giordano
Ambassador to the Netherlands	Joe Popolo [23]
Ambassador to New Zealand Ambassador to Samoa	Jared Novelly [24]
Ambassador to Norway	Michael E. Kavoukjian
Ambassador to Panama	Kevin Marino Cabrera [25]		May 5, 2025 (Confirmed April 9, 2025, 51–45) [RC 8]
Ambassador to Poland	Thomas Rose [26]
Ambassador to Portugal	John Arrigo [27]
Ambassador to Serbia	Mark Brnovich
Ambassador to Singapore	Anji Sinha [28]
Ambassador to South Africa	L. Brent Bozell III
Ambassador to Spain Ambassador to Andorra	Benjamin Leon [29]
Ambassador to Sweden	Christine Toretti [30]
Ambassador to Switzerland Ambassador to Liechtenstein	Callista Gingrich [31]
Ambassador to Tunisia	Bill Bazzi
Ambassador to Turkey	Tom Barrack [32]		May 14, 2025 (Confirmed April 29, 2025, 60–36) [RC 9]
Ambassador to the United Kingdom	Warren Stephens [33]		May 21, 2025 (Confirmed April 29, 2025, 59–39) [RC 10]
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)	Mike Waltz [34]	PA	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture (with the rank of ambassador)	Lynda Blanchard [35]
Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador)	Jennifer Locetta

Other international organizations

Office	Ambassador	Background	Assumed office	Left office
Representative to the European Union (with the rank of ambassador)	Andrew Puzder [36]	PA	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (with the rank of ambassador)	Matthew Whitaker [37]		April 3, 2025 (Confirmed April 1, 2025, 52–45) [RC 11]
Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (with the rank of ambassador)	Leandro Rizzuto Jr. [38]		Awaiting Senate Confirmation

Ambassadors at-large

Office	Ambassador	Background	Assumed office	Left office
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom	Mark Walker [39]	PA	Awaiting Senate Confirmation

Trade Representatives

Office	Ambassador	Background	Assumed office	Left office
United States Trade Representative (with the rank of ambassador)	Jamieson Greer	PA	February 27, 2025 (Confirmed February 26, 2025, 56–43) [RC 12]
Deputy United States Trade Representative for the Office of Geneva (with the rank of ambassador)	Joseph Barloon [40]	PA	Awaiting Senate Confirmation

Other positions with rank of ambassador

Office	Ambassador	Background	Assumed office	Left office
Chief of Protocol (with the rank of ambassador)	Monica Crowley [41]	PA	TBD (Confirmed May 12, 2025, 52–45) [RC 13]
Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism (with the rank of ambassador)	Yehuda Kaploun [42] [43]	PA	Awaiting Senate Confirmation

Special envoys, representatives, and coordinators

Office	Appointee	Background	Assumed office	Left office
Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions	Richard Grenell [15]	PA	January 20, 2025
Special Envoy for Latin America	Mauricio Claver-Carone [44]
Special Envoy for Middle East	Steve Witkoff [45]
Deputy Special Envoy for Middle East	Morgan Ortagus [46]
Special Envoy for Ukraine	Keith Kellogg [47]
Special Envoy to the United Kingdom	Mark Burnett [48]

Withdrawn candidates

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs	Adam Boehler	December 4, 2024	March 14, 2025
Representative to the United Nations and Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador)	Elise Stefanik [49]	November 10, 2024	March 27, 2025

See also

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

Notes

Confirmation votes

Confirmations by roll call vote

1. "PN25-18 – Peter Hoekstra, of Michigan, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Canada, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.senate.gov. April 9, 2025. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
2. "PN54-5 – David Perdue, of Georgia, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the People's Republic of China, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.senate.gov. April 29, 2025. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
3. "PN24-4 – Charles Kushner, of New York, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the French Republic and the Principality of Monaco, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.senate.gov. May 19, 2025. Retrieved May 21, 2025.
4. "PN25-20 – Mike Huckabee, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Israel, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.senate.gov. April 9, 2025. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
5. "PN26-18 – Tilman Fertitta, of Texas, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Italian Republic and the Republic of San Marino, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.senate.gov. April 29, 2025. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
6. "PN25-14 - George Glass, of Oregon, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Japan, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.congress.gov. April 8, 2025. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
7. "PN25-22 – Ronald Johnson, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the United Mexican States, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.senate.gov. April 9, 2025. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
8. "PN25-6 – Kevin Cabrera, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extrodinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Panama, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.senate.gov. April 9, 2025. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
9. "PN26-3 – Thomas Barrack, of Colorado, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Turkey, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.senate.gov. April 29, 2025. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
10. "PN24-5 – Warren Stephens, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.senate.gov. April 29, 2025. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
11. "PN25-56 - Matthew Whitaker, of Iowa, to be United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.congress.gov. April 1, 2025. Retrieved April 2, 2025.
12. "PN11-17 - Jamieson Greer, of Maryland, to be U.S. Trade Representative, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.congress.gov. February 26, 2025. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
13. "PN12-10 - Monica Crowley, of New York, to be Chief of Protocol and to have the rank of Ambassador, 119th Congress (2025–2026)". www.congress.gov. May 12, 2025. Retrieved May 12, 2025.

Confirmations by voice vote

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