Ambassador of the United States to Barbados | |
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Nominator | The President of the United States |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Inaugural holder | George Dolgin as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim |
Formation | November 30, 1966 |
Website | Ambassador to Barbados |
The United States ambassador to Barbados is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Barbados. The title of the ambassador is United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean and is concurrently the ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, while residing in Bridgetown, Barbados.
The following is a list of U.S. ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Barbados. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by |
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George Dolgin | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | November 30, 1966 | November 30, 1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Fredric R. Mann | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 27, 1967 | April 10, 1969 | |
Eileen R. Donovan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 5, 1969 | August 3, 1974 | Richard Nixon |
Theodore R. Britton, Jr. [1] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 12, 1975 | April 22, 1977 | Gerald Ford |
Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. [2] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 29, 1977 | May 15, 1979 | Jimmy Carter |
Sally Shelton-Colby [3] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 7, 1979 | February 24, 1981 | |
Milan D. Bish [4] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 10, 1981 | March 4, 1984 | Ronald Reagan |
Thomas H. Anderson, Jr. [5] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 11, 1984 | March 12, 1986 | |
Paul A. Russo [5] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 10, 1986 | June 25, 1988 | |
John E. Clark | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 25, 1988 | November 14, 1990 | |
G. Philip Hughes [6] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 14, 1990 | June 17, 1993 | George H. W. Bush |
Jeanette W. Hyde [6] [7] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 14, 1994 | January 31, 1998 | Bill Clinton |
E. William Crotty [8] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 24, 1998 | October 10, 1999 [9] | |
James A. Daley [8] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 26, 2000 | March 1, 2001 | |
Marcia Bernicat | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 2001 | March 2002 | [10] |
Roland W. Bullen | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | March 2002 | April 10, 2002 | |
Earl Norfleet Phillips [8] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 10, 2002 | June 1, 2003 | George W. Bush |
Mary E. Kramer [8] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 3, 2004 | October 30, 2006 | |
Mary Martin Ourisman [8] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 7, 2006 | January 16, 2009 | |
Brent Hardt [8] | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 16, 2009 | June 19, 2011 [11] | [10] Barack Obama |
Christopher Sandrolini [8] | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 19, 2011 | May 22, 2012 [11] | |
Larry Leon Palmer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 22, 2012 [12] | January 19, 2016 | |
Linda Swartz Taglialatela | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 1, 2016 | December 27, 2023 | |
Joaquin F. Monserrate | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | December 28, 2023 | January 11, 2024 | Joe Biden |
Roger F. Nyhus | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 20, 2024 | Incumbent | Joe Biden |
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