# List of female ambassadors of the United States

This is a list of women who are or have ever been ambassadors of the United States.

## List

| Name | Post | Term Start | Term End |
| Eugenie Anderson | United States ambassador to Denmark | December 22, 1949 | January 19, 1953 |
| Clare Boothe Luce | United States ambassador to Italy | May 4, 1953 | December 27, 1956 |
| Frances E. Willis | United States Ambassador to Switzerland | July 20, 1953 | May 5, 1957 |
| Frances E. Willis | United States Ambassador to Norway | May 20, 1957 | May 15, 1961 |
| Frances E. Willis | United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka | March 15, 1961 | September 20, 1964 |
| Margaret Joy Tibbetts | United States ambassador to Norway | October 6, 1964 | May 23, 1969 |
| Patricia Roberts Harris | United States Ambassador to Luxembourg | June 4, 1965 | September 22, 1967 |
| Carol C. Laise | United States Ambassador to Nepal | September 19, 1966 | June 5, 1973 |
| Eileen R. Donovan | United States ambassador to Barbados | September 5, 1969 | August 3, 1974 |
| Anne L. Armstrong | United States ambassador to the United Kingdom | March 17, 1976 | March 3, 1977 |
| Anne Cox Chambers | United States ambassador to Belgium | June 17, 1977 | January 17, 1981 |
| Sally Shelton-Colby | United States ambassador to Barbados | June 7, 1979 | February 24, 1981 |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick | United States ambassador to the United Nations | February 4, 1981 | April 1, 1985 |
| Jane Abell Coon | United States ambassador to Bangladesh | June 30, 1981 | August 3, 1984 |
| Harriet Winsar Isom (acting) | United States ambassador to Laos | August 1986 | August 1989 |
| Julia Chang Bloch | United States ambassador to Nepal | September 1989 | May 1993 |
| Harriet Winsar Isom | United States ambassador to Benin | January 26, 1990 | November 14, 1992 |
| Jennifer C. Ward | United States ambassador to Niger | March 25, 1991 | May 28, 1993 |
| Mary Ann Casey | United States ambassador to Algeria | July 2, 1991 | October 19, 1994 |
| Harriet Winsar Isom | United States ambassador to Cameroon | August 17, 1992 | January 15, 1996 |
| Ruth A. Davis | United States ambassador to Benin | August 17, 1992 | November 3, 1995 |
| Madeleine Albright | United States ambassador to the United Nations | January 27, 1993 | January 21, 1997 |
| Harriet C. Babbitt | United States ambassador to the Organization of American States | April 12, 1993 | November 30, 1997 |
| Jeanette W. Hyde | United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean | April 14, 1994 | January 31, 1998 |
| Mary Ann Casey | United States ambassador to Tunisia | July 5, 1994 | July 18, 1997 |
| Donna Hrinak | United States ambassador to the Dominican Republic | July 22, 1994 | December 8, 1997 |
| Elizabeth Frawley Bagley | United States ambassador to Portugal | September 21, 1994 | October 3, 1997 |
| Prudence Bushnell | United States ambassador to Kenya | September 2, 1996 | May 22, 1999 |
| Donna Hrinak | United States ambassador to Bolivia | January 14, 1998 | July 17, 2000 |
| Carolyn Curiel | United States ambassador to Belize | January 19, 1998 | March 1, 2001 |
| Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick | United States ambassador to Niger | September 10, 1999 | July 12, 2002 |
| Donna Hrinak | United States ambassador to Venezuela | August 25, 2000 | January 23, 2002 |
| Mary Ann Peters | United States ambassador to Bangladesh | September 15, 2000 | June 19, 2003 |
| Janet A. Sanderson | United States ambassador to Algeria | October 30, 2000 | May 13, 2003 |
| Pamela E. Bridgewater | United States ambassador to Benin | November 24, 2000 | December 10, 2002 |
| Donna Hrinak | United States ambassador to Brazil | April 23, 2002 | June 26, 2004 |
| Gail D. Mathieu | United States ambassador to Niger | October 3, 2002 | September 30, 2005 |
| Mary Kramer | United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean | March 30, 2004 | October 30, 2006 |
| Cynthia Efird | United States ambassador to Angola | August 31, 2004 | June 6, 2007 |
| Anne W. Patterson | United States ambassador to the United Nations (acting) | January 20, 2005 | August 2, 2005 |
| Catherine Todd Bailey | United States ambassador to Latvia | January 20, 2005 | February 4, 2008 |
| Marie Yovanovitch | United States ambassador to Kyrgyzstan | February 4, 2005 | February 4, 2008 |
| Michele J. Sison | United States ambassador to the United Arab Emirates | February 7, 2005 | January 19, 2008 |
| Pamela E. Bridgewater | United States ambassador to Ghana | October 11, 2005 | June 10, 2008 |
| Patricia A. Butenis | United States ambassador to Bangladesh | April 13, 2006 | June 23, 2007 |
| Gayleatha B. Brown | United States ambassador to Benin | July 25, 2006 | August 22, 2009 |
| Bernadette Allen | United States ambassador to Niger | February 21, 2006 | January 15, 2010 |
| Jeanine Jackson | United States ambassador to Burkina Faso | March 24, 2006 | March 7, 2009 |
| Karen B. Stewart | United States ambassador to Belarus | October 24, 2006 | March 12, 2008 |
| Mary M. Ourisman | United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean | November 7, 2006 | January 16, 2009 |
| Cindy Courville | United States ambassador to the African Union | December 22, 2006 | June 1, 2008 |
| Gail D. Mathieu | United States ambassador to Namibia | November 15, 2007 | September 4, 2010 |
| Eunice Reddick | United States ambassador to Gabon | December 6, 2007 | July 18, 2010 |
| Michele J. Sison | United States ambassador to Lebanon | January 25, 2008 | August 9, 2010 |
| Eunice Reddick | United States ambassador to São Tomé and Príncipe | April 15, 2008 | July 18, 2010 |
| Liliana Ayalde | United States ambassador to Paraguay | August 11, 2008 | August 5, 2011 |
| Marie Yovanovitch | United States ambassador to Armenia | September 22, 2008 | June 9, 2011 |
| Susan Rice | United States ambassador to the United Nations | January 26, 2009 | June 30, 2013 |
| Laurie S. Fulton | United States Ambassador to Denmark | July 15, 2009 | February 15, 2013 |
| Gayleatha B. Brown | United States ambassador to Burkina Faso (acting) | August 4, 2009 | August 5, 2010 |
| Patricia A. Butenis | United States ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives | August 19, 2009 | June 29, 2012 |
| Vilma Socorro Martínez | United States ambassador to Argentina | September 18, 2009 | July 4, 2013 |
| Nicole Avant | United States ambassador to The Bahamas | October 22, 2009 | November 21, 2011 |
| Anne S. Andrew | United States ambassador to Costa Rica | January 12, 2010 | June 13, 2013 |
| Mari Carmen Aponte | United States ambassador to El Salvador | September 27, 2010 | January 2, 2011 |
| Mari Carmen Aponte | United States ambassador to El Salvador | August 21, 2012 | February 7, 2016 |
| Bisa Williams | United States ambassador to Niger | October 29, 2010 | September 13, 2013 |
| Pamela E. Bridgewater | United States ambassador to Jamaica | November 3, 2010 | November 25, 2013 |
| Karen B. Stewart | United States ambassador to Laos | November 16, 2010 | August 8, 2013 |
| Jeanine Jackson | United States ambassador to Malawi | May 5, 2011 | September 25, 2014 |
| Mary Beth Leonard | United States ambassador to Mali | November 22, 2011 | September 22, 2014 |
| Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley | United States ambassador to Malta | May 2, 2012 | January 26, 2016 |
| Michele J. Sison | United States ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives | September 9, 2012 | December 6, 2014 |
| Rosemary DiCarlo | United States ambassador to the United Nations (acting) | June 30, 2013 | August 5, 2013 |
| Samantha Power | United States ambassador to the United Nations | August 5, 2013 | January 20, 2017 |
| Denise Bauer | United States ambassador to Belgium | September 26, 2013 | January 20, 2017 |
| Liliana Ayalde | United States ambassador to Brazil | October 31, 2013 | January 3, 2017 |
| Caroline Kennedy | United States ambassador to Japan | November 19, 2013 | January 18, 2017 |
| Helen La Lime | United States ambassador to Angola | May 15, 2014 | November 24, 2017 |
| Eunice Reddick | United States ambassador to Niger | September 12, 2014 | January 25, 2018 |
| Joan A. Polaschik | United States ambassador to Algeria | October 29, 2014 | April 27, 2017 |
| Nina Hachigian | United States Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations | November 3, 2014 | January 20, 2017 |
| Cynthia Akuetteh | United States ambassador to Gabon | December 26, 2014 | February 26, 2018 |
| Maureen Cormack | United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina | January 16, 2015 | January 16, 2019 |
| Cynthia Akuetteh | United States ambassador to São Tomé and Príncipe | April 10, 2015 | February 26, 2018 |
| Virginia E. Palmer | United States ambassador to Malawi | February 27, 2015 | June 7, 2019 |
| Jennifer Zimdahl Galt | United States Ambassador to Mongolia | October 5, 2015 | March 29, 2018 |
| Laura Farnsworth Dogu | United States Ambassador to Nicaragua | October 6, 2015 | October 30, 2018 |
| Lucy Tamlyn | United States ambassador to Benin | October 23, 2015 | October 17, 2018 |
| Patricia Alsup | United States Ambassador to the Gambia | January 13, 2016 | September 22, 2018 |
| Linda Swartz Taglialatela | United States Ambassador to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the OECS | February 1, 2016 | December 27, 2023 |
| Jean Elizabeth Manes | United States ambassador to El Salvador | March 30, 2016 | July 31, 2019 |
| Karen B. Stewart | United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands | July 25, 2016 | January 27, 2020 |
| Marie Yovanovitch | United States Ambassador to Ukraine | August 29, 2016 | May 20, 2019 |
| Mary Beth Leonard | United States ambassador to the African Union | September 13, 2016 | September 14, 2019 |
| Adrienne Galanek | U.S. Chargé d'Affaires for Belize | January 20, 2017 | July 21, 2018 |
| Michele J. Sison | United States ambassador to the United Nations (acting) | January 20, 2017 | January 27, 2017 |
| Herro Mustafa | United States chargé d'affaires to Portugal | January 20, 2017 | August 25, 2017 |
| Nikki Haley | United States ambassador to the United Nations | January 27, 2017 | December 31, 2018 |
| Kay Bailey Hutchison | United States Ambassador to NATO | August 28, 2017 | January 20, 2021 |
| Maria E. Brewer | United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone | October 5, 2017 | February 22, 2021 |
| Carla Sands | United States Ambassador to Denmark | November 2, 2017 | January 20, 2021 |
| Nina Maria Fite | United States ambassador to Angola | February 14, 2018 | November 8, 2021 |
| Michele J. Sison | United States Ambassador to Haiti | February 21, 2018 | October 9, 2021 |
| Mara Tekach | United States Ambassador to Cuba (acting) | July 20, 2018 | July 21, 2020 |
| Jenifer H. Moore | United States ambassador to Belarus (acting) | August 17, 2018 | July 27, 2020 |
| Lucy Tamlyn | United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic | February 6, 2019 | January 28, 2022 |
| Lynne M. Tracy | United States ambassador to Armenia | March 1, 2019 | December 22, 2022 |
| Eunice Reddick | United States Chargé d’Affaires to Burundi | May 5, 2019 | March 2, 2021 |
| Patricia Mahoney | United States ambassador to Benin | July 4, 2019 | February 1, 2022 |
| Melissa A. Brown | Ambassador of the United States to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (acting) | August 2019 | March 31, 2022 |
| Bridget A. Brink | United States Ambassador to Slovakia | August 20, 2019 | May 18, 2022 |
| Kelly Craft | United States ambassador to the United Nations | September 12, 2019 | January 20, 2021 |
| Jessica Lapenn | United States ambassador to the African Union | October 14, 2019 | February 1, 2023 |
| Herro Mustafa | United States ambassador to Bulgaria | October 18, 2019 | March 1, 2023 |
| Mary Beth Leonard | United States ambassador to Nigeria | December 24, 2019 | March 31, 2023 |
| Kelley Eckels Currie | United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues | January 14, 2020 | January 20, 2021 |
| Yuri Kim | United States Ambassador to Albania | January 27, 2020 | June 25, 2023 |
| Roxanne Cabral | United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands | February 6, 2020 | March 3, 2023 |
| Alina Romanowski | United States Ambassador to Kuwait | February 11, 2020 | April 15, 2022 |
| Jessica Davis Ba | United States Ambassador to Chad (acting) | May 1, 2020 | November 8, 2021 |
| Charisse Phillips | United States Chargé d'affaires to Bolivia | August 26, 2020 | October 7, 2022 |
| Sandra E. Clark | United States ambassador to Burkina Faso | September 25, 2020 | December 18, 2023 |
| Julie D. Fisher | United States ambassador to Belarus | December 23, 2020 | June 9, 2022 |
| MaryKay Carlson | United States ambassador to Argentina (acting) | January 20, 2021 | January 24, 2022 |
| Yael Lempert | U.S. Chargé d’Affaires to the United Kingdom | January 20, 2021 | August 1, 2021 |
| Martina A. Strong | U.S. Chargé d’Affaires to Saudi Arabia | January 20, 2021 | April 16, 2023 |
| Linda Thomas-Greenfield | United States ambassador to the United Nations | February 25, 2021 | January 20, 2025 |
| Melanie Harris Higgins | United States Ambassador to Burundi | March 2, 2021 | July 13, 2023 |
| Leyla Moses-Ones | U.S. Chargé d'Affaires for Belize | August 2021 | December 5, 2022 |
| Victoria Reggie Kennedy | United States Ambassador to Austria | January 12, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| Denise Bauer | United States Ambassador to France & United States Ambassador to Monaco | February 5, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| Elizabeth Moore Aubin | United States ambassador to Algeria | February 9, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Claire D. Cronin | United States Ambassador to Ireland | February 10, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| Jamie Harpootlian | United States Ambassador to Slovenia | February 17, 2022 | July 31, 2024 |
| Amy Gutmann | United States Ambassador to Germany | February 17, 2022 | July 13, 2024 |
| Julie J. Chung | United States ambassador to Sri Lanka | February 25, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Maria E. Brewer | United States Ambassador to Lesotho | March 10, 2022 | April 12, 2024 |
| Sharon L. Cromer | United States Ambassador to the Gambia | March 18, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Patricia Mahoney | United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic | April 8, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Laura Farnsworth Dogu | United States Ambassador to Honduras | April 12, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Randi Levine | United States ambassador to Portugal | April 22, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| Elizabeth Fitzsimmons | United States Ambassador to Togo | April 26, 2022 | May 30, 2024 |
| Virginia E. Palmer | United States ambassador to Ghana | May 10, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Caryn McClelland | United States Ambassador to Brunei | May 24, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Bridget A. Brink | United States Ambassador to Ukraine | May 30, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Alina Romanowski | United States Ambassador to Iraq | June 2, 2022 | December 7, 2024 |
| Claire A. Pierangelo | United States Ambassador to Madagascar | June 29, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Jane D. Hartley | United States ambassador to the United Kingdom | July 19, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| MaryKay Carlson | United States Ambassador to the Philippines | July 22, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Caroline Kennedy | United States Ambassador to Australia | July 25, 2022 | November 28, 2024 |
| Karen B. Decker | U.S. Chargé d'affaires for Afghanistan | August 1, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Meg Whitman | United States ambassador to Kenya | August 5, 2022 | November 13, 2024 |
| Bernadette Meehan | United States Ambassador to Chile | September 30, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| Carrin Patman | United States Ambassador to Iceland | October 6, 2022 | January 18, 2025 |
| Shefali Razdan Duggal | United States Ambassador to the Netherlands | October 19, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| Constance J. Milstein | United States ambassador to Malta | October 27, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| Angela Aggeler | United States Ambassador to North Macedonia | November 8, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Mari Carmen Aponte | United States Ambassador to Panama | November 21, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| Marie C. Damour | United States Ambassador to Fiji | November 24, 2022 | Incumbent |
| Michelle Kwan | United States ambassador to Belize | December 5, 2022 | January 16, 2025 |
| Candace Bond | United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago | December 8, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| Lynne M. Tracy | United States Ambassador to Russia | January 30, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Elizabeth Frawley Bagley | United States ambassador to Brazil | February 3, 2023 | January 20, 2025 |
| Lucy Tamlyn | United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo | February 6, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Kathleen A. Kavalec | United States Ambassador to Romania | February 14, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Julie D. Fisher | United States Ambassador to Cyprus | February 21, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Kristina Kvien | United States ambassador to Armenia | February 21, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Jessica Davis Ba | United States Ambassador to Ivory Coast | March 2, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Rachna Korhonen | United States ambassador to Mali | March 16, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Heide B. Fulton | United States Ambassador to Uruguay | March 22, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Kathleen A. FitzGibbon | United States ambassador to Niger | August 19, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Yael Lempert | United States Ambassador to Jordan | September 3, 2023 | January 20, 2025 |
| Adrienne Galanek | U.S. Chargé d'Affaires for Guyana | September 13, 2023 | October 23, 2023 |
| Jennifer L. Johnson | United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia | September 13, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Martina A. Strong | United States Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates | October 4, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Robin Dunnigan | United States Ambassador to Georgia | October 12, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Nicole D. Theriot | United States Ambassador to Guyana | October 23, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Herro Mustafa | United States Ambassador to Egypt | November 15, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Nicole Shampaine | Ambassadors of the United States Permanent to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | April 12, 2024 | Incumbent |
| Nina Maria Fite | U.S. Chargé d'Affaires for Moldova | July 10, 2024 | September 19, 2024 |
| Dorothy Shea | U.S. Chargé d'Affaires for United Nations | January 20, 2025 | Incumbent |