Post: | Ambassador |
Body: | the United States to Guyana |
Insignia: | US Department of State official seal.svg |
Insigniasize: | 120px |
Insigniacaption: | Seal of the United States Department of State |
Incumbent: | Nicole D. Theriot |
Incumbentsince: | October 23, 2023 |
Style: | The Honorable |
Residence: | Georgetown, Guyana |
Nominator: | The President of the United States |
Appointer: | The President |
Appointer Qualified: | with Senate advice and consent |
Inaugural: | Delmar R. Carlson as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim |
Formation: | May 26, 1966 |
Website: | U.S. Embassy - Georgetown |
The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Guyana. The current title given by the United States State Department to this position is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by | ||
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Delmar R. Carlson | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | May 26, 1966 | align=center | August 17, 1966 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Delmar R. Carlson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | August 17, 1966 | align=center | September 13, 1969 | |
Spencer Matthews King | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | October 15, 1969 | align=center | March 8, 1974 | Richard Nixon |
Max V. Krebs | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | April 4, 1974 | align=center | June 15, 1976 | |
John R. Burke | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | September 30, 1977 | align=center | September 22, 1979 | Jimmy Carter |
George B. Roberts Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | November 5, 1979 | align=center | September 8, 1981 | |
Gerald Eustis Thomas | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | February 18, 1982 | align=center | September 6, 1983 | Ronald Reagan |
Clint Arlen Lauderdale | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | August 2, 1984 | align=center | June 11, 1987 | |
Theresa Anne Tull | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | September 18, 1987 | align=center | July 10, 1990 | |
Dennis K. Hays | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | July 10, 1990 | align=center | January 21, 1992 | George H. W. Bush |
George Fleming Jones | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | January 21, 1992 | align=center | August 25, 1995 | |
David L. Hobbs[1] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | November 2, 1995 | align=center | September 15, 1996 | Bill Clinton |
Hugh Simon | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | September 15, 1996 | align=center | September 25, 1997 | |
James F. Mack | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | September 25, 1997 | align=center | April 21, 2000 | |
Ronald D. Godard | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | January 29, 2001 | align=center | July 6, 2003 | George W. Bush |
Roland W. Bullen | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | August 14, 2003 | align=center | July 14, 2006[2] | |
David M. Robinson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | August 26, 2006 | align=center | March 16, 2008[3] | |
John Melvin Jones[4] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | July 21, 2008 | align=center | December 31, 2009[5] | |
Thomas C. Pierce | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | August 31, 2010[6] | align=center | September 15, 2011 | Barack Obama |
D. Brent Hardt | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | September 15, 2011 | align=center | July 6, 2014 | |
Perry L. Holloway | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | October 2, 2015 | align=center | December 8, 2018 | |
Terry Steers-Gonzalez | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | January 2019 | align=center | March 13, 2019 | Donald Trump |
Sarah-Ann Lynch | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | March 13, 2019 | align=center | September 12, 2023[7] | |
Adrienne Galanek | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | September 13, 2023 | align=center | October 23, 2023 | Joe Biden |
Nicole D. Theriot | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | October 23, 2023 | align=center | Incumbent |