This is a list of United States ambassadors to the African Union. [1]
| Ambassador | Image | Assumed office | Left office |
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| Cindy Courville [2] [3] |  | December 22, 2006 | June 1, 2008 |
| John A. Simon [4] [5] |  | October 3, 2008 | January 20, 2009 |
| Michael Battle [6] [7] |  | November 2, 2009 | September 22, 2013 |
| Reuben Brigety [8] [9] |  | October 7, 2013 | September 24, 2015 |
| Mary Beth Leonard [10] |  | September 13, 2016 | September 14, 2019 |
| Jessica Lapenn [11] |  | October 14, 2019 | February 1, 2023 [12] |
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Jessica "Jessye" Lapenn is an American career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, who was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the African Union and the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa on August 27, 2019. Immediately prior, Lapenn served as the Chargé d'Affaires at U.S. Mission in South Africa from 2016 to 2019.
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