List of ambassadors of the United States to the Bahamas
List of U.S. Ambassadors to the Bahamas
The following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other Chiefs of Mission, to The Bahamas. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

List of ambassadors of the United States to the Bahamas

Section Title: List of U.S. Ambassadors to the Bahamas
Table Section Text: The following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other Chiefs of Mission, to The Bahamas. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Appointed by

Moncrieff J. Spear	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 10, 1973	September 7, 1973	Richard Nixon

Ronald I. Spiers	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 7, 1973	September 2, 1974

Seymour Weiss	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 11, 1974	December 15, 1976	Gerald Ford

Jack B. Olson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 22, 1976	April 30, 1977

William Bernstein Schwartz Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 11, 1977	January 31, 1981	Jimmy Carter

Lev E. Dobriansky	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 15, 1983	August 30, 1986	Ronald Reagan

Carol Boyd Hallett	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 17, 1986	May 10, 1989

Mayer Jacob Hecht	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 23, 1989	March 1, 1993	George H. W. Bush

Lino Gutierrez	Chargé d'Affairs ad interim	March 1993	July 1993	Bill Clinton

John S. Ford	Chargé d'Affairs ad interim	July 1993	March 1994

Sidney Williams	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 27, 1994	January 11, 1998

Arthur Louis Schechter	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 29, 1998	March 1, 2001

J. Richard Blankenship	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 3, 2001	July 18, 2003	George W. Bush

Robert M. Witajewski	Chargé d'Affairs ad interim	July 2003	September 2004

John D. Rood	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 1, 2004	April, 2007

D. Brent Hardt	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	April, 2007	October 25, 2007

Ned Siegel	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 26, 2007	January 2009

Timothy Zúñiga-Brown	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 2009	September 9, 2009	Barack Obama

Nicole Avant	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 21, 2011

John W. Dinkelman	Chargé d'Affaires	November 2011	July 2014

Lisa A. Johnson	Chargé d'Affaires	July 9, 2014	November 9, 2017	Donald Trump

Stephanie L. Bowers	Chargé d'Affaires	March 1, 2018	Present

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Schechter served as the United States ambassador to the Bahamas.
Schechter served as the United States Ambassador to the Bahamas.

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final_sentence: Schechter served as the United States ambassador to the Bahamas.
final_sentence: Schechter served as the United States Ambassador to the Bahamas.