Edward Spencer Abraham is an American attorney,author,and politician who served as the tenth United States Secretary of Energy from 2001 to 2005,under President George W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party,Abraham previously served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1995 to 2001. Abraham is one of the founders of the Federalist Society,and a co-founder of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Russell Dana Feingold is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party,he was its nominee in the 2016 election for the same U.S. Senate seat he had previously occupied. From 1983 to 1993,he was a Wisconsin State Senator representing the 27th District.
Dennis Webster DeConcini is an American lawyer,philanthropist,politician and former Democratic U.S. Senator from Arizona. The son of former Arizona Supreme Court Judge Evo Anton DeConcini,he represented Arizona in the United States Senate from 1977 until 1995. After his re-election in 1988,no Arizona Democrats were elected to the United States Senate for 30 years until Kyrsten Sinema won his former seat in 2018.
Stavros Lambrinidis is a Greek lawyer and politician who has served as the Ambassador of the European Union to the United States since March 2019. He previously served as the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights from 2012 to 2019 and Minister for Foreign Affairs from June 2011 to November 2011.
Kenneth Davison McClintock-Hernández is a politician who served as the twenty-second Secretary of State of Puerto Rico,one of the four longest serving in that post. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s National Hispanic Leadership Council in 2008,he co-chaired her successful Puerto Rico primary campaign that year and served as the Thirteenth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico until December 31,2008. He chaired Luis Fortuño’s Incoming Committee on Government Transition in 2008 and the Outgoing Committee on Government Transition in 2012,the only Puerto Rican to serve in both capacities. He was sworn into office as secretary of state on January 2,2009,by Chief Justice Federico Hernández Denton,fulfilling the role of lieutenant governor in the island.
Sam Fox is an American businessman in St. Louis,and the owner of Harbour Group Industries. He was the United States Ambassador to Belgium from April 11,2007 until January 2,2009. President George W. Bush appointed Fox to the post by a recess appointment on April 4,2007.
George Frederick Reinhardt (1911–1971) was an American foreign service officer and diplomat from 1937 until 1968. He was considered by his peers to be among the finest diplomats of his era. Reinhardt was the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam (1955–1957),to the United Arab Republic and North Yemen (1960–1961) and to Italy (1961–1968). In Vietnam,he worked to improve relations between the United States and South Vietnamese Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem.
James P. Cain is a hockey team executive and former United States Ambassador to Denmark from July 2005 to January 2009. He was appointed by President George W. Bush on June 30,2005. He was replaced by Laurie S. Fulton. Cain is a member of the North Carolina Republican Party. He is a former president of the National Hockey League team,Carolina Hurricanes,a position that he held before becoming an ambassador.
Patrick Mendis is an educator,diplomat,author,and executive in government service in the United States. A former American diplomat and military professor during the Clinton and Bush administrations,he was twice appointed as a commissioner of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO at the State Department by the Obama administration. His appointment to the UNESCO Commission ended during the Trump administration when the White House withdrew from the UN agency.
Ahmed Shaheed is a Maldivian diplomat,politician and professor. On 24 March 2016,he was appointed for the sixth year running as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Dr Shaheed is also the Chairperson of the Geneva-based international human rights think-tank,Universal Rights Group,which was launched in January 2014. He now lives in England,as Visiting Professor of Human Rights Practice at the University of Essex.
Robert Stephen "Steve" Beecroft is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as United States Ambassador to Egypt from December 2014 to July 2017. He previously served as United States Ambassador to Iraq and United States Ambassador to Jordan.
Nicole A. Avant is a former United States Ambassador to the Bahamas from 2009 to 2011.
Earl W. Renneke was a former Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota Senate from southern Minnesota.
Gordon Geoffrey Wetherell,CMG is a British diplomat who was the former Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands. He was appointed on 5 August 2008,replacing Richard Tauwhare in the position. On 14 August 2009,he assumed direct political control when the British government imposed direct rule on the islands in response to a Foreign Office inquiry which found "information in abundance pointing to a high probability of systematic corruption or serious dishonesty" in the islands' administration under former Premier,Michael Misick.
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich is an American lawyer and diplomat from California.
David Huebner is an international arbitrator based in Southern California. He previously served as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. He was the first openly gay ambassador in the Obama administration and the third openly gay ambassador in United States history. His tenure was marked by significant improvement in bilateral relations,with commentators observing that relations are stronger and closer than they have been in decades. Called an “excellent public face for the United States,”he has been widely praised as a successful Ambassador including for his accessible,inclusive approach,his emphasis on students and future leaders,and the innovative restructuring of his Embassies around social media and other nontraditional tools and approaches of diplomacy. Before being appointed Ambassador he worked as an international lawyer in Los Angeles,Shanghai,and New York City,specializing in international arbitration and mediation. He is licensed as an attorney in California,New York,and in the District of Columbia,and as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Peter Wittig is a former German diplomat and has been Germany's Ambassador to the Court of St. James in the United Kingdom from July,2018,to April,2020,after having served as Ambassador to the United States from April 30,2014,to June 20,2018 and Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York from 2009 to 2014.
Joyce Ellen Leader is a former American foreign service officer who served as the American ambassador to Guinea from 1999 to 2000. She succeeded Tibor P. Nagy and was succeeded by R. Barrie Walkley. She is a specialist in African and refugee affairs and is currently a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service,and was formerly a Senior Fellow at The Fund for Peace,where she authored "Rwanda’s Struggle for Democracy and Peace,1991–1994".
Rathakit Manathat has been a justice of the Supreme Administrative Court of Thailand since 2016,a former Thai career diplomat and Thai Foreign Ministry Spokesman.
