# List of ambassadors of the United States to Sierra Leone

The United States ambassador to Sierra Leone is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Sierra Leone.

## Ambassadors

| Name | Title | Appointed | Presented credentials | Terminated mission |
| Herbert Reiner – Career FSO | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | April 27, 1961 | N/A | 1961 |
| A. S. J. Carnahan – Political appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 11, 1961 | June 9, 1961 | July 13, 1963 |
| Andrew V. Corry - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 29, 1964 | February 25, 1964 | May 19, 1967 |
| Robert Graham Miner - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 7, 1967 | December 7, 1967 | June 16, 1971 |
| Clinton Louis Olson - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 27, 1972 | July 4, 1972 | November 11, 1974 |
| Michael Anthony Samuels - Political appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 20, 1974 | February 14, 1975 | May 25, 1977 |
| John Andrew Linehan - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 24, 1977 | August 30, 1977 | May 9, 1980 |
| Theresa Ann Healy - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 27, 1980 | September 18, 1980 | July 13, 1983 |
| Arthur Winston Lewis - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 17, 1983 | August 17, 1983 | June 5, 1986 |
| Cynthia Shepard Perry - Political appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 16, 1986 | July 16, 1986 | August 30, 1989 |
| Johnny Young – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 10, 1989 | November 29, 1989 | July 23, 1992 |
| Lauralee M. Peters - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 15, 1992 | October 8, 1992 | July 6, 1995 |
| John Lewis Hirsch - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 14, 1995 | September 13, 1995 | June 17, 1998 |
| Joseph Melrose - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 22, 1998 | November 20, 1998 | September 10, 2001 |
| Peter R. Chaveas - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 12, 2001 | October 12, 2001 | May 24, 2004 |
| Thomas Neil Hull - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 12, 2004 | August 19, 2004 | August 27, 2007 |
| June Carter Perry - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 7, 2007 | October 8, 2007 | January 2, 2009 |
| Michael S. Owen – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 9, 2010 | September 30, 2010 | October 2, 2013 |
| John Hoover - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 12, 2014 | December 4, 2014 | July 2, 2017 |
| Maria Brewer - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 3, 2017 | October 5, 2017 | February 22, 2021 |
| David Dale Reimer - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 22, 2020 | March 24, 2021 | August 24, 2023 |
| Bryan David Hunt - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 27, 2023 | September 11, 2023 | Incumbent |