List of United States Ambassadors to the European Union

Gordon Sondland, last US Ambassador to the European Union

This is the list of United States Ambassadors to the European Union . The official English title of the American EU ambassador is: Representative of the USA to the European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary .

European Union

Surname	image	appointed by	Term of office	Remarks
William Walton Butterworth		John F. Kennedy	August 10, 1961-25. October 1962	Since 1959 ambassador to several predecessors of the EC
John Wills Tuthill		John F. Kennedy	October 23, 1962-7. June 1966
J. Robert Schaetzel		Lyndon B. Johnson	September 16, 1966-25. October 1972
Joseph A. Greenwald		Richard Nixon	October 12, 1972-28. January 1976
Deane Roesch Hinton		Gerald Ford	Jan. 29, 1976-3. December 1979
Thomas Ostrom Enders		Jimmy Carter	November 6, 1979-27. May 1981
George Southall Vest		Ronald Reagan	September 20, 1981-27. February 1985
John William Middendorf II		Ronald Reagan	July 12, 1985-1. February 1987
Alfred Hugh Kingon		Ronald Reagan	March 27, 1987-23. June 1989
Thomas Michael Tolliver Niles		George HW Bush	June 23, 1989-26. August 1991
James Francis Dobbins, Jr.		George HW Bush	October 9, 1991-31. July 1993
Stuart Elliot Eizenstat		Bill Clinton	August 2, 1993-April 1996	In 1994 the European Community became the European Union

European Union

Surname	image	appointed by	Term of office	Remarks
Stuart Elliot Eizenstat		Bill Clinton	August 2, 1993-April 1996	In 1994 the European Community became the European Union
Arthur Vernon Weaver Jr.		Bill Clinton	July 2, 1996-28. February 1999
Richard L. Morningstar		Bill Clinton	July 7, 1999-21. September 2001
Rockwell A. Schnabel		George W. Bush	October 1, 2001–18. June 2005
Clayland Boyden Gray		George W. Bush	January 17, 2006–31. December 2007
Kristen Silverberg		George W. Bush	May 2, 2008-18. January 2009
William Earl Kennard		Barack Obama	November 23, 2009–29. July 2013
Anthony Luzzatto Gardner		Barack Obama	February 13, 2014-20. January 2017
Gordon David Sondland		Donald Trump	June 28, 2017–7. February 2020

Web links

• The United States Mission to the European Union