Post: | Ambassador |
Body: | the United States to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
Insignia: | US Department of State official seal.svg |
Insigniasize: | 120px |
Insigniacaption: | Seal of the United States Department of State |
Incumbent: | Roger F. Nyhus |
Incumbentsince: | February 9, 2024 |
Nominator: | The President of the United States |
Inaugural: | Milan D. Bish as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary |
Formation: | December 11, 1981 |
Website: | U.S. Embassy - Bridgetown |
The United States ambassador to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The ambassador is the United States ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, resident in Bridgetown, Barbados, and is concurrently the ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Lucia.
No U.S. mission has ever been established at Kingstown. All diplomatic functions are handled out of the U.S. embassy at Bridgetown, Barbados, where the U.S. ambassador to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is resident.
The following is a list of U.S. ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by | |||
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Milan D. Bish[1] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | December 11, 1981 | align=center | March 4, 1984 | Ronald Reagan | |
Thomas H. Anderson, Jr.[2] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | August 22, 1984 | align=center | March 12, 1986 | ||
Paul A. Russo | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | December 5, 1986 | align=center | June 25, 1988 | ||
G. Philip Hughes[3] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | November 19, 1990 | align=center | June 17, 1993 | George H. W. Bush | |
Jeanette W. Hyde[4] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | May 24, 1994 | align=center | January 31, 1998 | Bill Clinton | |
E. William Crotty[5] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | January 29, 1999 | align=center | October 10, 1999[6] | ||
James A. Daley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | October 26, 2000 | align=center | March 1, 2000 | ||
Earl Norfleet Phillips | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | April 16, 2002 | align=center | June 1, 2003 | George W. Bush | |
Mary Kramer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | February 12, 2004 | align=center | October 30, 2006 | ||
Mary Martin Ourisman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | February 26, 2007 | align=center | January 16, 2009 | ||
Brent Hardt | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | January 16, 2009 | align=center | June 19, 2011[7] | [8] | |
Christopher Sandrolini | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | June 19, 2011 | align=center | May 22, 2012 | ||
Larry Leon Palmer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | June 7, 2012[9] | align=center | January 19, 2016 | Barack Obama | |
Linda Swartz Taglialatela | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | February 1, 2016 | align=center | December 27, 2023 | ||
Joaquin F. Monserrate | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | December 28, 2023 | align=center | January 11, 2024 | Joe Biden | |
Roger F. Nyhus | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | February 9, 2024 | align=center | Incumbent | Joe Biden |