Cyrus Roberts Vance was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Prior to serving in that position,he was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Johnson administration. During the Kennedy administration he was Secretary of the Army and General Counsel of the Department of Defense.
Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger was an American statesman and career diplomat,who served briefly as the secretary of state under President George H. W. Bush from December 1992 to January 1993,one of the shortest terms in modern history. Previously,he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon,Jimmy Carter,and Ronald Reagan,and as deputy secretary of state to James Baker under George H. W. Bush. Eagleburger is the only career Foreign Service Officer to have served as secretary of state. He was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from January to May 1973. As a career member of the United States Senior Foreign Service,he attained the rank of Career Ambassador on April 12,1984.
Marc Isaiah Grossman is an American former diplomat and government official. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey,Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs,and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was most recently the United States Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and is currently a Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group,a business strategic advisory firm headed by former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen,and a Vice Chair of the German Marshall Fund board of trustees.
Ronald Ian "Ron" Spiers was an American diplomat who served as an Ambassador to several countries during the 1970s and 1980s.
Thomas Reeve Pickering is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments,he served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and international relations scholar who served as the United States ambassador to China from 2022 to 2025.
Robert Michael Kimmitt was United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. He was nominated by President Bush on June 29,2005. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed him on July 29,2005,and he was sworn into office on August 16,2005. Kimmitt served through the end of the Bush administration,leaving office on January 20,2009.
William Joseph Burns is an American diplomat and served as the 8th director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Biden administration from March 19,2021 to January 20,2025. He previously served as U.S. deputy secretary of state from 2011 to 2014;in 2009 he served as acting secretary of state for a day,prior to the confirmation of Hillary Clinton. Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a 32-year career. From 2014 to 2021,he served as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
John Francis Maisto is a retired U.S. career diplomat,who rose from Foreign Service Officer to eventually serve as a U.S. Ambassador in a number of postings.
David Maclain Hale is an American diplomat and career ambassador,who previously served as the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He is currently a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow at the Wilson Center,on detail from the Department of State.
Kristie Anne Kenney is an American former senior diplomat who served as the 32nd Counselor of the United States Department of State from 2016 to 2017. She is a recipient of the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award and held the nation's highest diplomatic rank of Career Ambassador in the United States Foreign Service. She served as the Department of State Transition Coordinator for the 2016–17 transition.
Lucius Durham Battle was a career Foreign Service officer who served with distinction in Washington,Europe and Southwest Asia.
John William Blaney was a United States State Department official and former U.S. Ambassador to Liberia. Ambassador Blaney led successfully U.S. efforts to end Liberia's long civil war,including crossing no man's land in 2003 to negotiate an end to the fighting,which enabled the formal peace process in Ghana to conclude successfully the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. For his achievements in Liberia,Ambassador Blaney was awarded the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award,the highest diplomatic honor of his nation. Previous diplomatic assignments included Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in South Africa,Director for Southern African Affairs at the State Department,Presidential designation as the U.S. Deputy Representative to the ECOSOC of the United Nations,Minister-Counselor at U.S. Embassy Moscow,and positions working on several nuclear arms control negotiations. He also served as a Legislative Assistant in both houses of Congress,and as an economist at the U.S. Treasury and State Departments. During the course of his career,Ambassador Blaney received many State Department honors as well as Presidential and foreign awards,including Liberia's Order of the Knight Great Band,and an honorary doctorate in Political Science. He is the author/editor of Successor States to the USSR,and many journal articles including,"The Art of Strategy Creation for Complex Situations". Prior to his diplomatic career,Blaney served as an officer in the U.S. Army.
Richard Boyce Norland is an American diplomat. He has served as the United States Ambassador to Libya.
Stephen D. Mull is a Senior Foreign Service officer who was most recently the Acting Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. He previously served as United States Ambassador to Poland,Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and United States Ambassador to Lithuania.
James William Pardew Jr. was an American diplomat,international negotiator,military officer,and United States Ambassador to Bulgaria. After serving as a military intelligence officer in the United States Army for 28 years,Pardew entered the arena of international diplomacy with a heavy focus on the Balkans,where he was instrumental in coordinating agreements and peace resolutions,as well as heading major State Department programs such as the Bosnian Train-and-equip program.
Robert E. Lamb was Assistant Secretary of State for Administration within the U.S. State Department from 1983 to 1985. He also served as an Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security from 1987 to 1989 and the United States Ambassador to Cyprus from 1990 to 1993.
Maynard Wayne Glitman was an American diplomat. Glitman negotiated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987. Later,Glitman served as the United States Ambassador to Belgium from 1988 to 1991.
Michael G. Kozak is an American diplomat in the United States Department of State who is serving as Acting Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs and she had served Acting Assistant Secretary from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Belarus between 2000 and 2003 and chief of mission at the United States Interests Section in Havana between 1996 and 1999,and was a nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador in 1991. He achieved a measure of prominence in the 1980s for his attempts to negotiate with Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega to leave power.
Wayne J. Bush is an American diplomat who was Assistant Secretary General for Executive Management at NATO in 2013.
