List of ambassadors of the United States to Trinidad and Tobago
List of ambassadors

List of ambassadors of the United States to Trinidad and Tobago

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

William H. Christensen	Non-career appointee	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	August 31, 1962	August 31, 1962	1962

Robert G. Miner	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 23, 1962	December 1, 1962	Left post September 18, 1967

William A. Costello	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 13, 1967	October 26, 1967	Left post March 17, 1969

J. Fife Symington, Jr.	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 8, 1969	September 11, 1969	Left post November 14, 1971

Anthony D. Marshall	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 15, 1972	February 22, 1972	Left post December 27, 1973	An earlier nomination of December 7, 1971 was not acted upon by the Senate.

Lloyd I. Miller	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 19, 1973	February 8, 1974	Left post May 23, 1975

Albert B. Fay	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 4, 1976	February 17, 1976	Left post April 5, 1977

Richard K. Fox, Jr.	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 8, 1977	July 21, 1977	Left post July 16, 1979

Irving G. Cheslaw	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 28, 1979	October 18, 1979	Left post September 1, 1981

Melvin Herbert Evans	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 1, 1981	January 1, 1982	Died November 27, 1984	Evans left post on November 21, 1984.

Sheldon J. Krys	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 12, 1985	August 19, 1985	Left post April 24, 1988

Charles A. Gargano	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 15, 1988	August 9, 1988	Left post June 7, 1991

Sally G. Cowal	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 2, 1991	August 27, 1991	Left post August 22, 1994

Brian J. Donnelly	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 5, 1994	September 5, 1994	Left post September 24, 1997

Edward E. Shumaker III	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 24, 1997	January 13, 1998	Left post March 31, 2001

Roy L. Austin	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 1, 2001	December 6, 2001	December 18, 2009

Beatrice Wilkinson Welters	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 27, 2010	2010	Left post October 2012

Margaret Diop	Foreign Service officer	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	October 2012	N/A

John L. Estrada	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 2013	March 17, 2016	Left post January 20, 2017

John W. McIntyre	Foreign Service Officer	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 20, 2017	N/A

Joseph Mondello	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 2, 2018	October 22, 2018

Sentence(s)

Estrada was nominated to be the United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago in July 2013, and became the ambassador on March 17.

final_sentence: Estrada was nominated to be the United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago in July 2013, and became the ambassador on March 17.