Denise Campbell Bauer is an American diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to France and Monaco. Bauer served as Ambassador of the United States to Belgium from 2013 to 2017. After being nominated by President Barack Obama,she was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on August 2,2013;she was sworn in the following August 7. She left office on January 20,2017. A member of the Democratic Party,she was the executive director of Women for Biden.
Herro Kader Mustafa Garg is a Kurdish-American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Egypt since November 2023. She served as the United States ambassador to Bulgaria from October 2019 to March 2023.
Mari Carmen Aponte is an American attorney and diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Panama in the Biden administration since November 2022. She previously served as acting assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs on May 5,2016. She also served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador from August 2010 until December 2011 and again from June 14,2012,until December 2015. Before that she was serving as a member of the board of directors of Oriental Group,a major financial and banking services enterprise in Puerto Rico. President Obama also nominated her as the United States' permanent representative to the Organization of American States,but the Senate had not acted upon that nomination upon adjournment in December 2014.
Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón is a Dominican Republic-born American attorney and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra from 2022 to 2024. Prior to her service as ambassador she was the chief of staff to First Lady Jill Biden. She formerly served as a litigation and international arbitration partner with the international law firm Winston &Strawn LLP. She was previously a partner with Chadbourne &Parke LLP,practicing in the firm's International Arbitration and Latin America groups. Reynoso is also affiliated with the faculty at Columbia University School of Law and the School of International and Public Affairs. From March 2012 until December 2014,she served as United States Ambassador to Uruguay. She is a former deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the United States Department of State. President Biden nominated her to be the next United States Ambassador to Spain on July 27,2021,being confirmed on December 18,2021.
Kenneth H. Merten is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Bulgaria since April 2023. Merten has served in various positions in the Department of State beginning in 1987,most notably as ambassador to Haiti from 2009 to 2012,ambassador to Croatia from 2012 to 2015,and special coordinator for Haiti from 2015 to 2017.
Claire D. Cronin is an American attorney,politician,and diplomat who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to Ireland. She previously served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 11th Plymouth district from 2013 to 2022. Cronin was the first woman to serve as House Majority Leader.
Lucy Flores is an American lawyer and former politician. A member of the Democratic Party,she was a member of the Nevada State Assembly representing the 28th district in the eastern Las Vegas Valley from 2010 to 2014. She unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 2014,losing to Republican nominee Mark Hutchison.
Jane Dorothy Hartley is an American businesswoman and diplomat,serving as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom since 2022 under the Biden administration. She previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco from 2014 to 2017 during the Obama administration.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is an American diplomat who serves as the United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden. She served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2013 to 2017. Thomas-Greenfield then worked in the private sector as a senior vice president at business strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington,D.C.
Julieta Valls Noyes is an American diplomat who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Population,Refugees,and Migration from 2022 to 2024 during the Biden administration. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Croatia from 2015 to 2017 during the Obama administration. Noyes retired in October 2024.
Irma Carrillo Ramirez is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas from 2002 to 2023. She is a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Alina L. Romanowski is an American career diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq from June 2022 to December 2024. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Kuwait from February 2020 to April 2022.
Cynthia Ann Telles is an American academic and psychologist who currently serves as the United States ambassador to Costa Rica. She is a clinical professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and serves on the executive committee of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is the founding director of the Hispanic Neuropsychiatric Center of Excellence.
Linda Lopez is an American attorney serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. She previously served as a magistrate judge of the same court.
Evelyn Padin is an American lawyer from New Jersey who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Ana Isabel de Alba is an American attorney who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California from 2022 to 2023.
Ana Cecilia Reyes is an Uruguayan-born American lawyer who has served as United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia since 2023. She was nominated to the position by President Joe Biden;and is both the first Latina and the first openly LGBT person to serve as a district court judge in Washington,D.C.
Mia Roberts Perez is an American attorney who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She previously served as a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas from 2016 to 2022.
Araceli Martínez-Olguín is a Mexican-American lawyer from California who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
PODER PAC is an American Democratic Party political action committee (PAC) founded in 2008 in Orlando,Florida. Its goal is to increase and support pro-choice Latinas running for all levels of elected office.
