List of ambassadors of the United States to Jamaica
Ambassadors

List of ambassadors of the United States to Jamaica

Section Title: Ambassadors
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Name	Background	Title	Appointment	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Notes

Irving G. Cheslaw	Non-career appointee	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	August 16, 1962	Unknown	1962

William C. Doherty, I	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 23, 1962	November 26, 1962	Left post, April 25, 1964

Wilson T.M. Beale, Jr.	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 1, 1965	October 13, 1965	Left post, October 22, 1967

Walter N. Tobriner	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 7, 1967	December 11, 1967	Left post, March 21, 1969

Vincent de Roulet	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 19, 1969	October 23, 1969	Left post, July 18, 1973

Sumner Gerard	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 22, 1974	June 4, 1974	Left post, April 15, 1977

Frederick Irving	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 26, 1977	July 18, 1977	Left post, November 22, 1978

Loren E. Lawrence	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 23, 1979	April 12, 1979	Left post, July 9, 1982

William Alexander Hewitt	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 30, 1982	November 1, 1982	Left post, October 14, 1985

Michael Sotirhos	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 28, 1985	November 12, 1985	Left post, July 7, 1989

Glen A. Holden	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 10, 1989	November 21, 1989	Left post, March 1, 1993

Lacy A. Wright, Jr.	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	March 1993	November 1994

Jerome Gary Cooper	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 5, 1994	November 4, 1994	Left post, November 27, 1997

Stanley Louis McLelland	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 12, 1997	February 6, 1998	Left post March 1, 2001

Sue McCourt Cobb	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 20,2001	2001	2005

Pamela E. Bridgewater	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 1, 2010	Unknown	2013

Luis G. Moreno	Foreign Service Officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 20, 2014	January 13, 2015	Left post June 30, 2017

Eric Khant	Chargé d’ Affaires	June 30, 2017

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