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United States Ambassador to Kiribati

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Nominator
  
Barack Obama

Website
  
U.S. Embassy - Suva

Formation
  
September 26, 1980

United States Ambassador to Kiribati

Inaugural holder
  
William Bodde as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

The United States ambassador to Kiribati is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Kiribati. The ambassador is concurrently the ambassador to Fiji, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu, while resident in Suva, Fiji.

Ambassadors

  • William Bodde – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 26, 1980
  • Presented credentials: January 20, 1981
  • Terminated mission: Left post, August 15, 1981
  • Fred J. Eckert – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: February 11, 1982
  • Presented credentials: May 31, 1982
  • Terminated mission: Left post, May 7, 1984
  • Carl Edward Dillery – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 27, 1984
  • Presented credentials: January 29, 1985
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 15, 1987
  • Leonard Rochwarger – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 28, 1987
  • Presented credentials: May 9, 1988
  • Terminated mission: Left post, August 31, 1989
  • Evelyn Irene Hoopes Teegan – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 10, 1989
  • Presented credentials: January 18, 1990
  • Terminated mission: Left post, March 5, 1993
  • Joan M. Plaisted – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: December 19, 1995
  • Presented credentials: April 9, 1996
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 28, 2000
  • Michael James Senko – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: December 28, 2000
  • Presented credentials: April 10, 2001
  • Terminated mission: Left post, August 2, 2003
  • David L. Lyon – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 7, 2003
  • Presented credentials: November 18, 2003
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 23, 2005
  • Larry Miles Dinger – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 27, 2005
  • Presented credentials: September 1, 2005
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 5, 2008
  • C. Steven McGann – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 6, 2008
  • Presented credentials: November 24, 2008
  • Terminated mission: Left post, October 13, 2011
  • Frankie A. Reed – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 13, 2011
  • Presented credentials: Unknown
  • Terminated mission: Incumbent

    • References

    United States Ambassador to Kiribati Wikipedia
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