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List of Department of State appointments by Donald Trump

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Below is a list of Donald Trump's appointments to the Department of State.

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  Denotes appointees confirmed by the Senate.

  Denotes appointees awaiting Senate confirmation.

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  Denotes appointees who have left office or offices which have been disbanded.

  Denotes nominees who were withdrawn prior to being confirmed or assuming office.

Appointments

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Office Nominee Assumed office Left office

Secretary of State

Mike Pompeo
April 26, 2018
(Confirmed April 26, 2018, 57–42)[1]

Deputy Secretary of State

Stephen Biegun[2]
December 21, 2019
(Confirmed December 19, 2019, 90–3)[3]

Deputy Secretary of State
(Management and Resources)
Vacant

Director General of the Foreign Service

Carol Z. Perez[4]
February 1, 2019
(Confirmed January 2, 2019, voice vote)

Legal Adviser of the Department of State

Marik String[5]
June 1, 2019

Chief Financial Advisor
Vacant

Under Secretary of State
(Arms Control and International Security Affairs)

Christopher Ford
October 21, 2019 January 8, 2021

Under Secretary of State
(Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights)
Vacant

Under Secretary of State
(Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment)

Keith J. Krach[6]
June 21, 2019
(Confirmed June 20, 2019, voice vote)

Under Secretary of State
(Management)

Brian Bulatao[7]
May 17, 2019
(Confirmed May 16, 2019, 92–5)[8]

Under Secretary of State
(Political Affairs)

David Hale[9]
August 30, 2018
(Confirmed August 28, 2018, voice vote)

Under Secretary of State
(Public Diplomacy)
Vacant

Assistant Secretary of State
(African Affairs)

Tibor P. Nagy[10]
July 23, 2018
(Confirmed June 28, 2018, voice vote)

Assistant Secretary of State (Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance)

Vacant

Assistant Secretary of State
(Conflict and Stabilization Operations)

Denise Natali[11]
October 18, 2018
(Confirmed October 11, 2018, voice vote)
December 22, 2020

Alexander Alden[12]
December 22, 2020

Assistant Secretary of State
(Consular Affairs)

Carl Risch
August 11, 2017
(Confirmed August 3, 2017, voice vote)
December 22, 2020

Assistant Secretary of State
(Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor)

Robert Destro[13]
September 23, 2019
(Confirmed September 18, 2019, 49–44)[14]

Assistant Secretary of State
(Diplomatic Security)

Michael Evanoff
November 3, 2017
(Confirmed November 2, 2017, voice vote)
July 24, 2020

Assistant Secretary of State
(East Asian and Pacific Affairs)

David Stilwell[15]
June 20, 2019
(Confirmed June 13, 2019, 94–3)[16]

Assistant Secretary of State
(Economic and Business Affairs)

Manisha Singh
November 22, 2017
(Confirmed November 2, 2017, voice vote)

Assistant Secretary of State
(Educational and Cultural Affairs)

Marie Royce[17]
March 30, 2018
(Confirmed March 22, 2018, voice vote)

Assistant Secretary of State
(Energy Resources)

Frank Fannon
May 29, 2018
(Confirmed May 24, 2018, voice vote)

Assistant Secretary of State (European and Euroasian Affairs)
Vacant

Assistant Secretary of State
(Intelligence and Research)

Ellen E. McCarthy[18]
January 22, 2019
(Confirmed January 2, 2019, voice vote)

Assistant Secretary of State
(International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs)

Kirsten Madison[19]
May 11, 2018
(Confirmed April 26, 2018, voice vote)

Assistant Secretary of State
(International Organization Affairs)

Jonathan M. Moore
November 29, 2019 March 1, 2020

Assistant Secretary of State
(International Security and Nonproliferation)

Christopher Ashley Ford
January 9, 2018
(Confirmed December 21, 2017, voice vote)
January 8, 2021

Assistant Secretary of State
(Legislative Affairs)
Vacant

Assistant Secretary of State
(Near Eastern Affairs)

David Schenker[20]
June 14, 2019
(Confirmed June 5, 2019, 83–11)[21]

Assistant Secretary of State
(Oceans and International, Environmental and Scientific Affairs)
Vacant

Assistant Secretary of State
(Political-Military Affairs)

R. Clarke Cooper[22]
May 2, 2019
(Confirmed April 30, 2019, 90–8)[23]

Assistant Secretary of State
(Population, Refugees, and Migration)
Vacant

Assistant Secretary of State
(South Asian Affairs)
Vacant

Assistant Secretary of State
(Western Hemisphere affairs)
Vacant

Chief of Protocol

Cam Henderson[24]
August 12, 2019

Assistant Secretary of State
(Administration)

Carrie Cabelka[25]
August 20, 2019[26]

Assistant Secretary of State
(Public Affairs)
Vacant

Coordinator for Counterterrorism

Nathan Sales
August 10, 2017
(Confirmed August 3, 2017, voice vote)

Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs


Inspector General of the Department of State

Diana Shaw
December 11, 2020
Office of Foreign Missions

Director of the Office of Foreign Missions

Stephen Akard[27][28]
September 16, 2019
(Confirmed September 11, 2019, 90–2)[29]
August 7, 2020

Cliff Seagroves
August 6, 2020
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
John Cotton Richmond[30]
November 14, 2018
(Confirmed October 11, 2018, voice vote)
Member of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking Harold D'Souza[31] March 2018
Christina Frundt[31]
Nathan Paul Kinnicutt[31]
Robert R. Lung[31]
Ronny Marty[31]
Florencia Molina[31]
Bukola Oriola[31]
Tanya Street[31]
Sheila White[31]
United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
Member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy Vacant
International Boundary and Water Commission
Commissioner of the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission for United States and Mexico
Jayne Harkins[32]
September 2018

Previous officeholders

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Office Name Took office Left office Notes

Secretary of State

Rex Tillerson
February 1, 2017 March 31, 2018 Fired March 13, 2018.[33] His tenure was the fifteenth-shortest in the office's 228-year history, and the third-shortest since World War II.[a] Tillerson is the only Secretary of State since at least 1945 to have been fired.[34]

Thomas A. Shannon Jr.
January 20, 2017 February 1, 2017

Under Secretary of State (Political Affairs)
February 12, 2016 June 4, 2018

Deputy Secretary of State
February 1, 2017 May 24, 2017

John Sullivan
May 24, 2017 December 20, 2019 Became Ambassador to Russia.

Secretary of State
March 31, 2018 April 26, 2018

Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State

Margaret Peterlin
February 12, 2017 March 31, 2018

Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State

Michael McKinley
November 2018 October 10, 2019 [35]

Special Representative for Iran

Brian Hook
September 1, 2018 August 6, 2020

Director of Policy Planning
February 17, 2017 September 1, 2018

Kiron Skinner
September 4, 2018 August 2, 2019 [36]

Chief of Protocol

Sean Lawler
December 1, 2017 July 9, 2019 In June 2019, Lawler was accused of intimidating behavior towards staff and became the subject of an unsubstantiated investigation by the State Department's Office of the Inspector General. He resigned on July 9, 2019.

Under Secretary of State (Management)

Patrick F. Kennedy
November 15, 2007 January 26, 2017

Under Secretary of State
(Arms Control and International Security Affairs)

Andrea L. Thompson
June 18, 2018 October 20, 2019 [37]

Chris Ford
October 21, 2019 January 8, 2021 Originally planning on resigning on January 15, he rescinded his original resignation and submitted a resignation in protest, effective immediately, following the 2021 storming of the U.S Capitol.[38]

Assistant Secretary of State
(International Security and Nonproliferation)
January 9, 2018 January 8, 2021

Thomas M. Countryman
September 29, 2011 January 27, 2017

Under Secretary of State
(Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs)

Steve Goldstein
December 4, 2017 March 13, 2018 Shortly after President Trump dismissed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13, 2018, Goldstein released a statement that Tillerson did not know why he had been fired and that Tillerson had only learned of his firing that morning from Trump's tweet.[39][40] Goldstein's statement was seen as contradicting the official account of Tillerson's dismissal, which was that Tillerson was informed on March 9 that Trump intended to replace him,[41] and Goldstein was fired from his position.[39][40] According to Axios, Goldstein was disliked in the White House and "seen as openly anti-Trump."[42]

Heather Nauert
March 13, 2018 October 10, 2018 In December 2018, Trump chose the former Fox & Friends journalist to be the next UN Ambassador, but her nomination was never submitted to the Senate. Nauert left the State Department and joined the board of the Fulbright Program.

Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
April 24, 2017 April 3, 2019

Mark Toner
January 20, 2017 April 27, 2017

Deputy Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
June 1, 2015 May 2017

Legal Adviser of the Department of State

Richard Visek
January 20, 2017 January 22, 2018

Jennifer Gillian Newstead
January 22, 2018 April 22, 2019

Director General of the Foreign Service

Arnold A. Chacón
December 22, 2014 June 2, 2017

Assistant Secretary of State
(Legislative Affairs)

Mary Kirtley Waters
December 20, 2017 August 31, 2018 Became Director of the United Nations Information Center Washington

Mary Elizabeth Taylor
October 1, 2018 June 18, 2020 Resigned over Trump's response to nationwide protests against racial injustice.[43]

Assistant Secretary of State
(East Asian and Pacific Affairs)

Daniel R. Russel
July 16, 2013 March 8, 2017

Susan Thornton
March 9, 2017 July 7, 2018

Assistant Secretary of State
(European and Eurasian Affairs)

A. Wess Mitchell
October 12, 2017 February 15, 2019 [44]

Assistant Secretary of State
(Western Hemisphere Affairs)

Kimberly Breier
October 15, 2018 August 30, 2019 Resigned due to internal disputes over immigration policies.

Assistant Secretary of State (Administration)

Joyce Anne Barr
December 19, 2011 January 26, 2017

Assistant Secretary of State
(Consular Affairs)

Michele Thoren Bond
August 10, 2015 January 27, 2017

Assistant Secretary of State
(Educational and Cultural Affairs)

Mark Taplin
January 2017 August 2017

Assistant Secretary of State
(Conflict and Stabilization Operations)

David Malcolm Robinson
January 4, 2016 January 31, 2017

Denise Natali
October 18, 2018 December 22, 2020 [45]

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State,
Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations

Mina Chang
April 29, 2019 November 18, 2019 Resigned a week after news reports of apparent past résumé embellishments: 'Resigning is the only acceptable moral and ethical option'.[46][47]

Assistant Secretary of State
(Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance)

Yleem Poblete
April 30, 2018 June 7, 2019

Assistant Secretary of State
(International Organization Affairs)

Kevin Moley
March 29, 2018 November 29, 2019 Retired after an internal department watchdog report accused Moley of mismanagement and harassment of career employees.[48]

Ambassador to the United Nations

Nikki Haley
January 27, 2017 December 31, 2018 Ambassador Haley announced her resignation in October 2018, effective by the end of the year.[49]

Jonathan Cohen
January 1, 2019 September 12, 2019 Cohen was Acting UN Ambassador until the confirmation of Kelly Craft.

Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations
June 8, 2018 November 17, 2019 Became Ambassador to Egypt.

Ambassador to the European Union

Gordon Sondland
July 9, 2018 February 7, 2020 Fired two days after Trump's acquittal.[50]

Ambassador to Afghanistan

John R. Bass
December 12, 2017 January 6, 2020

Ambassador to Turkey
October 20, 2014 October 15, 2017 Became Ambassador to Afghanistan.

Ambassador to Gabon

Joel Danies
April 18, 2018 March 1, 2019

Ambassador to São Tomé and Príncipe
April 20, 2018

Ambassador to Germany

Richard Grenell
May 8, 2018 June 1, 2020 [51]

Ambassador to Guinea

Simon Henshaw
March 4, 2019 June 9, 2020 Died in office[52]

Ambassador to Japan

William F. Hagerty
August 31, 2017 July 22, 2019

Ambassador to Mongolia

Jennifer Zimdahl Galt
October 5, 2015 November 10, 2017

Ambassador to Norway

Kenneth Braithwaite
February 8, 2018 May 29, 2020 Became Secretary of the Navy.[53]

Ambassador to Pakistan

David Hale
November 17, 2015 August 29, 2018 Became Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

Ambassador to Panama

John D. Feeley
December 9, 2015 March 9, 2018 Resigned over policy differences with the Trump administration.[54]

Ambassador to Ukraine

Marie Yovanovitch
August 29, 2016 May 20, 2019 The career diplomat was scheduled to remain until July, but Trump removed her when she objected to Rudy Giuliani's activities in Ukraine.

William Taylor
June 18, 2019 January 1, 2020 Taylor had been Ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. Secretary Pompeo asked him to return to Kyiv temporarily after Yovanovitch's recall. Both Yovanovitch and Taylor were witnesses in the impeachment inquiry.[55]

Ambassador to Zambia

Daniel Lewis Foote
December 17, 2017 December 24, 2019 Recalled after being declared persona non grata in Zambia resulting from his denouncement of the imprisonment of a local homosexual couple.

Special Envoy for Northern Ireland

Mick Mulvaney

May 1, 2020 January 7, 2021 After serving in several roles in the Trump administration, Mulvaney resigned following the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol.[56]

Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL

Brett McGurk
October 23, 2015 December 31, 2018 Ambassador McGurk, an Obama holdover who had planned to retire in February 2019, resigned in protest of the Trump administration's Syria policy.[57]

James Jeffrey
January 4, 2019 November 13, 2020 [58]

Special Representative for Syria Engagement
August 17, 2018

Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council

Kelley Eckels Currie
August 4, 2017 February 18, 2019 She was nominated on March 8, 2019 and confirmed on December 19, 2019 to be Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues and Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.[59]

Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations

Kurt Volker
July 7, 2017 September 27, 2019 Resigned after his involvement in the Trump–Ukraine scandal came to light.[60]

State Department Inspector General

Steve Linick
September 30, 2013 May 15, 2020 Fired after starting multiple investigations into Secretary Mike Pompeo: alleged misuse of a political appointee to do tasks for him and Mrs. Pompeo, helping fast-track "emergency" arms sales to Saudi Arabia and potential misuse of State Dept. facilities and diplomatic funds for "Madison dinners".[61] The president said he had lost confidence in Linick.[62]

Stephen Akard
May 15, 2020 August 6, 2020
Special Adviser to the Iran Action Group Gabriel Noronha January 7, 2021 Fired by the White House after writing a tweet condemning the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol, referring to President Trump by name.[63][64]

Notes

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  1. ^ Excluding interim appointments. Behind Edmund Muskie and Lawrence Eagleburger.

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