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 |