List of United States Ambassadors to the Bahamas

The list of United States Ambassadors to the Bahamas provides an overview of the heads of the US diplomatic mission in the Bahamas from the establishment of diplomatic relations to the present day.

Surname	Official title	Appointment date	Term expires	Appointed by
Moncrieff J. Spear	Charge d'Affaires	July 10, 1973	7th September 1973	Richard Nixon
Ronald I. Spiers	ambassador	7th September 1973	2nd September 1974
Seymour Weiss	ambassador	September 11, 1974	15th December 1976	Gerald Ford
Jack B. Olson	ambassador	22nd December 1976	April 30, 1977
William B. Schwartz	ambassador	October 11, 1977	January 31, 1981	Jimmy Carter
Lev E. Dobriansky	ambassador	March 15, 1983	August 30, 1986	Ronald Reagan
Carol Boyd Hallett	ambassador	17th November 1986	May 10, 1989
Mayer Jacob Hecht	ambassador	23rd August 1989	March 1, 1993	George Bush
Lino Gutierrez	Charge d'Affaires	March 1993	July 1993	Bill Clinton
John S. Ford	Charge d'Affaires	July 1993	March 1994
Sidney Williams	ambassador	March 27, 1994	January 11, 1998
Arthur Louis Schechter	ambassador	October 29, 1998	March 1, 2001
J. Richard Blankenship	ambassador	December 3, 2001	July 18, 2003	George W. Bush
Robert M. Witajewski	Charge d'Affaires	July 2003	September 2004
John D. Rood	ambassador	September 1, 2004	April 2007
D. Brent Hardt	Chargè d'Affaires	April 2007	October 25, 2007
Ned Siegel	ambassador	October 26, 2007	January 2009
Timothy Zúñiga-Brown	Chargè d'Affaires	January 2009	September 9, 2009	Barack Obama
Nicole Avant	ambassador	October 16, 2009	November 21, 2011
John W. Dinkelman	Chargè d'Affaires	November 2011