Jan.

25, 2019

Women U.S. Ambassadors

Appointed and/or Confirmed By the Trump Administration

Appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Angola on

November 20, 2017.

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ms. Fite was most
recently the U.S. Consul General in Montreal, Canada from
September 2014 to August 2017. She also served as U.S. Consul
General in Lahore, Pakistan from September 2011 to May 2014.

Nina Maria Fite

U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, confirmed 1/2/19

From Ohio, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of
Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of
Armenia.

Lynne M. Tracy
U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, confirmed 1/2/19

From Virginia, Ms. Mahoney is a career member of the Senior

Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor.  She currently serves
as the office director for the Office of Mainland Southeast Asia in the
State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. 
Previously, Ms. Mahoney held senior leadership positions as the
Deputy Chief of Mission at the American embassies in Kampala,
Uganda and Kathmandu, Nepal.  Ms. Mahoney also served as
director of South Asia for the National Security Council along with
other assignments domestically and abroad.  She earned a
B.A. cum laude from Harvard University, an M.A from the University
Patricia Mahoney of Hawaii, and an M.S. degree from the National War College.  Ms.
Mahoney speaks French, Thai, Nepali, and Lao

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U.S. Ambassador to Canada, confirmed 8/3/17

Kelly Craft serves as the President’s personal representative to the

government and people of Canada.  She leads the U.S. Mission to
Canada, which comprises the Embassy in Ottawa and seven
Consulates located across Canada.

A third generation Kentuckian, wife, mother of 6 and grandmother of

11, Ambassador Craft demonstrates a deep commitment to her
home state by serving in several leadership roles with the Salvation
Army of Lexington and the Center for Rural Development, a non-
profit dedicated to economic development in rural Kentucky.  She
also served on the Boards of Directors for the Kentucky Arts
Council, the Lexington Philharmonic, YMCA of Central Kentucky,
and the United Way of The Bluegrass.

Kelly Knight Craft

U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica confirmed 8/3/17

She previously served as the co-chairwoman of

the Republican National Committee.

Sharon Day

U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus confirmed 1/2/19

 American diplomat and was the Ambassador of the United

States of America to Latvia. She currently serves as the acting
Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment and Science at
the Department of State.[1] In August 2018, Garber was
nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next United
States Ambassador to Cyprus

Judith Garber

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U.S. Ambassador to Denmark confirmed 11/2/17

A businesswoman and investor, former actress, Doctor of Chiropractic

Medicine, and American diplomat who serves as the United States
Ambassador to Denmark.

Sands served on the boards of Pepperdine University, the Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Arts, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and
the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

She was named by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, to be on the board

of the California Cultural and Historical Endowment.

Sands served as the President and Chairman of Blue Ribbon, an

organization that supports the Los Angeles Music Center and also as a
Director of the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County. She also
served on the board of the California Cultural and Historical Endowment.
She is also a GOP fundraiser and donor and supported the campaign of
Carla Sands Donald Trump.

U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic confirmed 6/28/18

Bernstein was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey and graduated

from Bridgeton High School in 1972. She received a Bachelor of
Arts in Language Area Studies from the American University School
of International Service in 1975.  She later earned an Master of
Business Administration from the George Washington University
School of Business in 1981.

She started off as a Democrat and served as a transition team

member for Jimmy Carter and then worked around the Democratic
Party until 1986, when she became a Republican. She was a
founding member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club, and has been his
Robin Bernstein insurance agent for many years, leading to concerns about
potential conflicts of interest, especially given the Trump
Organization's pursuit of a licensing deal in the Dominican Republic.
U.S. Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea confirmed 1/2/19

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-

Counselor, has been the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State
Department’s Bureau of Public Affairs since 2016.   She served as the
Bureau’s Acting Assistant Secretary from January 2017 – January
2018.  Previously, Ms. Stevenson was the Chief of Staff for the Under
Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (2015 – 2016) and
Director of the Office of Policy, Planning and Resources for the Under
Secretary for Public Diplomacy (2014 – 2015).   She also held senior
leadership positions as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, as Director of the Foreign Press Centers,
Washington, D.C. (2012) and as Consul General and Principal Officer of the
U.S. Consulate General, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2010 – 2012). 
Susan N. Stevenson

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U.S. Ambassador to Ghana confirmed 9/6/18

 an American diplomat. She has served as Deputy Assistant

Secretary for Central African Affairs and Security Affairs for the
Bureau of African Affairs since January 2017. She previously served
as United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo, having
been nominated by President Obama on June 13, 2013, confirmed
by the Senate August 1, 2013 and served through January 20, 2017.

Stephanie S. Sullivan
U.S. Ambassador to Guyana confirmed 1/2/19

 A career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID), class of Minister-Counselor,
has served as an American diplomat since 1993.  Since 2015, she has been
senior deputy assistant administrator and acting assistant administrator of
USAID’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).  Previously,
Ms. Lynch was the USAID Mission Director in Iraq from 2013 to 2014, the
director of USAID’s Office of Iraq and Arabian Peninsula Affairs from 2011
to 2013, and director of the Office of Program and Project Development for
USAID Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009.  In addition to serving as director in
USAID/LAC’s Office of Strategy and Program Planning and the Office of
South American Affairs, she also served overseas in Peru and Bangladesh. 
Ms. Lynch earned a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, an M.A.L.D. degree
from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and an
Sarah-Ann Lynch
M.S. from the National War College.  She speaks Arabic, French, and
Spanish.
U.S. Ambassador to Haiti confirmed 11/2/17

served as U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations (2014-2018), U.S.

Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives (2012-2014), U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon
(2008-2010), and U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (2004-2008).

Ambassador Sison’s diplomatic assignments also include Assistant Chief of Mission

in Baghdad, Iraq; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian
Affairs; Deputy Chief of Mission in Islamabad, Pakistan; Consul General in Chennai,
India; and tours in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, and Haiti. She also served
as the State Department’s Director of Career Development and Assignments.
 Ambassador Sison is the recipient of the U.S. Presidential Distinguished Service
Award, U.S. Presidential Meritorious Service Award, and the U.S. Department of the
Army’s Outstanding Civilian Service Medal. She also holds numerous U.S.
Department of State awards, including Superior Honor Awards and Ambassadorial-
level awards for her contributions to counter-proliferation (2008) and combatting
trafficking in persons (2005). Ambassador Sison is the mother of two grown
Michele Jeanne daughters.
Sison

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U.S. Ambassador to Holy See confirmed 10/16/17

American businesswoman, author, documentary film producer, and

diplomat who serves as the United States Ambassador to the Holy See.
She is married to former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and
2012 Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.  President Donald
Trump nominated her to be the United States Ambassador to the Holy
See in May 2017, and the United States Senate confirmed the nomination
on October 16, 2017. On December 22, 2017, Gingrich presented her
credentials to Pope Francis and officially assumed the duties of United
States Ambassador to the Holy See. She is the 11th U.S. Ambassador to
the Holy See since formal relations were established in 1984 under
President Ronald Reagan.
Callista Gingrich
U.S. Ambassador to Lesotho confirmed 11/16/17

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-
Counselor. Since August 2016, she has served as the Chief of Staff for the
Assistant Secretary for Administration, responsible for strategic
management and advisory services supporting global foreign policy goals.
Deputy Executive Director for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs from 2013
to 2016.

Joined the Foreign Service in 1992, and served in various capacities in

Panama, Greece, Colombia, India, Saudi Arabia, Botswana, and South
Africa. In Washington; served as a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary
for Management and as Post Management Officer for the Levant.

Received a B.A. in International Affairs and an M.B.A. from the George

Rebecca Eliza Washington University; M.A. in National Resource Strategy from the Dwight
Gonzales D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy.

She speaks fluent Spanish and professional level Greek.

Nominated 1/16/19 to be U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-

Counselor, currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United
States Embassy Athens, Greece. Previously, she was the Deputy Chief of
Mission and Deputy United States Permanent Representative at the United
States Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE), Vienna, Austria.   During her career, she has served as Public
Affairs Counselor at the United States Embassy Madrid Spain, Department
of State Senior Civilian Representative to Task Force Bastogne/Bronco,
Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan, and the Public Affairs Advisor to the United
States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels,
Belgium.  Ms. Byrnes earned B.S. and M.A. degrees from Georgetown
University. She is also the recipient of the Secretary’s Expeditionary Service
Award and the United States Army Meritorious Civilian Service Award.  Ms.
Kate Marie Byrnes
Byrnes speaks Spanish, Hungarian and Turkish.

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NOMINATED: 5/24/18 to be U.S. Ambassador to Malta

Toretti is the Chairman and CEO of S.W. Jack Drilling Co., the largest

privately held land-based drilling company in the United States.[2] As of
2005, it is the nineteenth largest contract drilling company in terms of total
footage drilled.[3] The company, founded in 1918 by Toretti's grandfather, is
headquartered in Indiana, Pennsylvania and has regional offices
in Buckhannon and Charleston, West Virginia.[4][5] The S.W. Jack Company
supports oil and gas exploration in West
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia and New York.[5]

She assumed control of the company upon the unexpected death of her
father, Samuel W. Jack Jr., in 1990.[6][7] Prior to that, she served as CFO.
[7] She is noted as a rare female CEO in the male-dominated energy

industry.
Christine Toretti
U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro confirmed 9/6/18

Only the fifth foreign service officer from the Department of Commerce – and the
first woman – to be confirmed as Chief of Mission.

Reinke carried out the duties of the Deputy Director General of the U.S. and Foreign
Commercial Service (US&FCS) from June 2013 through August 2017; Acting
Assistant Secretary/Director General for the US&FCS. Served as the Minister
Counselor for Commercial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, from
2010-13. Senior representative of the U.S. Department of Commerce; Served as the
Regional Director for Western Europe, overseeing the operations of the US&FCS at
U.S. Embassies and Consulates in 14 countries in Europe and the US&FCS liaison
office at the European Union (2008-10); Served as the Senior Commercial Officer in
Manila, Philippines (2005-08), and in Bangkok, Thailand (2002-05). Deputy Senior
Commercial Officer in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 1999-2002; Commercial Attaché in
Judy Rising Reinke Bonn, Germany (1993-98); and Commercial Officer with responsibility for export
control matters in Bern, Switzerland (1990-92); U.S. Department of Commerce in
Washington, D.C. in the Bureau of Export Administration (1986-90) and in the
International Trade Administration’s Import Administration (1983-86).

Master’s Degree in Public Affairs (MPA) from the Woodrow Wilson School of
Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College; Completed the
Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University.

U.S. Ambassador to Namibia confirmed 11/16/17

Served as Chargé d’Affaires at U.S. Embassy Nassau, The Bahamas, from

2014 to 2017.

Career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor,

Ambassador Johnson was Director of the Office of Africa and the Middle
East in the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement Affairs from 2012-2014.  Served in the Office of the Vice
President as Senior Advisor for South and Central Asia from 2011-2012. 
Served as National Security Council Director for Middle East Affairs and
Deputy Director of the Office of Canadian Affairs; Overseas diplomatic:
Luanda, Pretoria, Beirut, and Islamabad, and a secondment to the Office of
the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in
Lisa A. Johnson Brussels.

From Seattle, Washington, A.B. degree in Political Science and Economics

at Stanford University; Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia
University and an M.S. degree in National Security Strategy from the
National War College.

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U.S. Ambassador to NATO confirmed 8/3/17

Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison was sworn in as the Permanent

Representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization on August 15, 2017.  From 1993-2013, she served as a
U.S. Senator from Texas and was also elected to a Senate
leadership position.  Ambassador Hutchison gained extensive
international experience and developed a deep understanding of
NATO as a Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.  She
also served as Chairman of the Military Construction Subcommittee
and as a Member of the Defense Subcommittee on the Senate
Appropriations Committee.  She served two terms as Chairman of
the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Prior to assuming her duties, Ambassador Hutchison was a

prominent attorney at Bracewell, LLP, an established international
Kay Bailey Hutchison law firm in Dallas, Texas. Ambassador Hutchison also served in the
Texas House of Representatives, as the Texas State Treasurer, and
as Vice Chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board

NOMINATED: 1/16/19 U.S. Ambassador to OECD

24 years as a career member of the United States Foreign Service; Partner

at Securitas Global Risk Solutions in Wayne, Pennsylvania, in 2017. 
Service as deputy director of the Economic and Commercial Studies
Division for the National Foreign Affairs Training Institute in Arlington,
Virginia, and Senior energy advisor at the United States Mission to the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France. 
Served in the State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business
Affairs.  A.B. degree from Bowdoin College, her M.A. from John Hopkins
University School of Advanced International Studies, and M.B.A. from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  Speaks French,
Spanish, Portuguese, and German.

Pamela Bates
U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone confirmed 8/3/17

She most recently served as Deputy Director of the Career Development

and Assignments division of the Department of State’s Bureau of Human
Resources (2016-2017).  Prior to that position, she was the Deputy Chief of
Mission of the US. Embassy in Nigeria (2013-2016).  Previously she served
as: Deputy Executive Director of the Bureau of African Affairs; Management
Officer in Islamabad, Pakistan; in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and in Mumbai,
India.  She has also served as a Special Assistant for the Bureau of
Administration and the Under Secretary for Management, and served in the
Office of Allowances.  She began her Foreign Service career in Lagos,
Nigeria, and served her second tour in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

In 2010, Maria received a Master of Science degree in National Resource

Maria Brewer Strategy at the National Defense University’s Industrial College of the
Armed Forces.  She holds a B.A. in Spanish and International Economics
from Valparaiso University in Indiana.  She is married with one daughter.

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NOMINATED 1/16/19 to be U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia

Co-founded 100X Development Foundation in 2004, an organization

dedicated to fostering creative solutions to eradicate poverty and improve
the lives of children around the world.  Concurrently, she co-founded and is
currently senior advisor at B & M Management Company, a real estate
investment management company.  Ms. Blanchard has worked in Africa,
Asia, and South America, engaging with local partners to further 100X
Development Foundation’s mission.  As an advocate for people with
special needs for more than 20 years, Ms. Blanchard has voluntarily served
on boards of non-profit organizations and supported numerous education
programs in Alabama, as well as helped families who are interested in
adoption.  She is the mother of seven children, four of which were adopted
internationally.  Ms. Blanchard earned a B.S. in mathematics and a minor in
Lynda Blanchard computer science from Auburn University.

NOMINATED 1/16/19 to be U.S. Ambassador to South Africa

Ms. Marks is the founder and CEO of Lana Marks Ltd., Inc., a luxury
fashion accessories producer.  She served on the Women’s
Leadership Board at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Women’s
International Forum for more than a decade. Ms. Marks attended the
University of the Witwatersrand and the Institute of Personnel
Management in Johannesburg, South Africa.  She speaks Afrikaans
and Xhosa.

Lana J. Marks
NOMINATED 9/6/18 to be U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka & Maldives
Wife and mother of two sons; Career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the
rank of Minister Counselor, she joined the State Department in 1991 and is the
recipient of numerous Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards.  In Sri Lanka, she
hopes to build upon seven decades of partnership and cooperation in order to
enhance prosperity, encourage democracy and ensure stability.

Assistant-Secretary ranked position of Director of the Under Secretary for

Management’s Office of Policy, Rightsizing, and Innovation (M/PRI) at the
Department of State from 2012-2015. Minister Counselor for Management at U.S.
Embassy Kabul from 2011-2012.  Served as the Deputy Executive Director of the
Near East and South and Central Asia Bureau’s joint executive office from
2009-2011; Director of the Management Training Division at the State Department’s
Foreign Service Institute from 2007-2009. 

Alaina Teplitz Previous assignments include Management Counselor in Dhaka, Bangladesh and
Deputy Director of the Joint Administrative Services supporting three U.S. Missions
– the U.S. Mission to NATO, the U.S. Mission to the European Union, and the
Embassy to the Kingdom of Belgium – in Brussels, Belgium.   Her previous posts
also include: Ulaanbaatar, Tirana, and Sydney.

Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of

Foreign Service.

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U.S. Ambassador to Sweden confirmed 10/11/18

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-
Counselor, Served in the State Department’s Political Military Affairs Bureau
(PM) where she was the second-highest ranking official and led all aspects
of bureau management; Served as Deputy Coordinator for Military
Coordination and Operations Policy in the Counterterrorism (CT) Bureau, a
Deputy Assistant Secretary-level position in which she held responsibilities
including the State Department’s Foreign Emergency Support Team and
Hostage Affairs.

Served as Embassy Kabul’s Transition Director for two years. Was Foreign
Policy Advisor to the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command
(SOCOM).  From 2008 to 2010; Served tours in Paraguay, Kazakhstan, and
Karen Lynn Williams Bosnia-Herzegovina and as Deputy Director of Caribbean Affairs in
Washington. 

Master’s degree from the National War College and an undergraduate

degree from Drury University. SOCOM Outstanding Civilian Service Medal,
Department of State Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards, as well as
Drury’s 2003 Outstanding Young Alumni Award.
U.S. Ambassador to Timor-Leste confirmed 11/2/17

career member of the Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor.

Served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of

State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). Before joining INR,
Ambassador Fitzpatrick served as Chief of Staff in the office of the Under
Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights. Previously,
she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights and Labor; Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian
Affairs as Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs and as
Director of the Office of Nordic and Baltic Affairs; Served as Political
Counselor at U.S. Embassy Madrid, as a Political Officer at U.S. Embassy
Moscow and the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels; Vice Consul in
Antwerp, Belgium; Acting Office Director in the Bureau of Political Military
Affairs, Political Officer in the Bureau of International Organizations’ Office
of United Nations Political Affairs, and Desk Officer in the Department’s
Near Eastern Affairs Bureau; Served in the Executive Secretariat and the
Kathleen Fitzpatrick State Department’s Operations Center.

M.A. in Political Science from Georgetown University and a M.S. in National

Security Studies from the United States National War College; Presidential
Rank Award, the Department’s 2017 Arnold L. Raphel Award (for
leadership, mentoring and professional development of colleagues), and a
number of Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards from the Department of
State. Speaks Spanish, Russian, Dutch, French, and some Arabic.

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Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council

Confirmed 08/03/2017

American lawyer and government official who currently serves as the

Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. She
served as the Acting Deputy Representative of the U.S. to the U.N., after it
was vacated by Michele Sison. Prior to assuming her current role, she was
a senior fellow with the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank focused on
security issues and public policy in Central-Asia and the Asia-Pacific
region. She previously held senior public policy positions with the United
States Department of State and several international and non-
governmental human rights and humanitarian organizations. Currie also
served as foreign operations appropriations associate and staff director of
the Congressional Human Rights Caucus for Representative John Porter.

Kelley Eckels Currie

U.S. Ambassador to UN / Management & Reform confirmed
9/12/18

Served as Minister Counselor of UN Management and Reform from

2014-2018, Counselor from 2012-2014 and as a Senior Advisor from
2008-2013 when she joined the U.S. Mission. Before joining USUN,
Cherith served in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs at the Department
of State from 2003-2007 as the primary liaison between State and
the House Appropriations and Budget Committees. A native of
North Carolina, she worked for Senator Jim DeMint prior to joining
the State Department. Wife and mother of three.

Cherith Norman
Chalet
U.S. Ambassador to UN / Vienna confirmed 9/24/18

Representative of the United States to the Vienna Office of the United

Nations and Representative of the United States of America to the
International Atomic Energy Agency, with the Rank of Ambassador.

Has served the United States for more than 30 years in a number of foreign
policy and national security positions.

Ambassador Wolcott was Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of

International Organization Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Assistant
to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Associate Director
for National Security in the Office of Presidential Personnel at The White
House, White House Liaison at the Department of State, and Special
Assistant for Congressional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South
Jackie Wolcott Asian Affairs, Department of State. She has worked as a Congressional
staff member in both the House and the Senate.

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