List of ambassadors of the United States to the Bahamas

The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Bahamas, usually simply called U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas, is an official position and title appointed by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate by majority vote. The ambassador oversees diplomatic relations and foreign policy between the United States and the Bahamas. The ambassador lives in Nassau, the nation's capital.

Due to political disputes, the United States Senate has not confirmed an ambassador to the Bahamas since November 2011, with the post either remaining vacant or held by interim appointees who are not ambassadors. Cassandra Butts, nominated for the post by President Barack Obama in 2013, died of leukemia in 2016, having spent more than two years awaiting a vote on her appointment. President Donald Trump nominated Doug Manchester in 2017 but the nomination stalled and he eventually withdrew.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In May 2020, President Trump nominated William A. Douglass for the position;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> his nomination was eventually withdrawn by President Joe Biden in February 2021.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In May 2022, President Biden nominated Calvin Smyre for the position.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As of December 2024, Smyre's nomination remained pending before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On December 18, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he had nominated Herschel Walker to serve in the role. He was confirmed in the senate on October 7, 2025, becoming the first confirmed ambassador to the Bahamas since 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

List of U.S. ambassadors to the Bahamas

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to The Bahamas. 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	President
Moncrieff J. Spear	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting	Richard Nixon
Ronald I. Spiers	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Seymour Weiss	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting	Gerald Ford
Jack B. Olson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
William Bernstein Schwartz Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting	Jimmy Carter
Lev E. Dobriansky	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting	Ronald Reagan
Carol Boyd Hallett	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Mayer Jacob Hecht	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting	George H. W. Bush
Lino Gutierrez	Chargé d'Affairs ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting	Bill Clinton
John S. Ford	Chargé d'Affairs ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Sidney Williams	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Arthur Louis Schechter	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
				George W. Bush
Daniel A. Clune	Charge d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
J. Richard Blankenship	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Robert M. Witajewski	Chargé d'Affairs ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
John D. Rood	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
D. Brent Hardt	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Ned Siegel	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Timothy Zúñiga-Brown	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting	Barack Obama
Nicole Avant	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
John W. Dinkelman	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Lisa A. Johnson	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
				Donald Trump
James Herren	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Stephanie Bowers	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Usha E. Pitts	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting<ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref>	Joe Biden
Jason Crosby	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting<ref name="Crosby">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>		Template:Date table sorting
Michael P. Taylor	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting
Kimberly Furnish	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Template:Date table sorting	Template:Date table sorting Incumbent
				Donald Trump
Herschel Walker	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	TBD	Template:Date table sorting –

See also

• The Bahamas–United States relations
• Foreign relations of the Bahamas
• Ambassadors of the United States

References

General references

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• United States Department of State: Background notes on the Bahamas
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External links

• United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Bahamas
• United States Department of State: the Bahamas
• United States Embassy in Nassau