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Chiefs of Mission for Barbados
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Notice posted on January 12, 2024.
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updated March 14, 2024.
Chiefs of Mission
- George Dolgin (1911–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, November 30, 1966–
- Fredric Rand Mann (1903–1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 27, 1967–April 10, 1969
- Eileen Roberta Donovan (1915–1996)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 5, 1969–August 3, 1974
- Theodore Roosevelt Britton Jr. (1925–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 12, 1975–April 22, 1977
- Francis Vincent Ortiz Jr. (1926–2005)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 29, 1977–May 15, 1979
- Sally Angela Shelton (1944–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 7, 1979–February 24, 1981
- Milan D. Bish (1929–2001)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 10, 1981–March 4, 1984
- Thomas H. Anderson Jr. (1946–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 11, 1984–March 12, 1986
- Paul A. Russo (1943–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 10, 1986–June 25, 1988
- John E. Clark (1939–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, June 1988–July 1990
- G. Philip Hughes (1953–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 14, 1990–June 17, 1993
- Jeanette W. Hyde (1938–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 14, 1994–January 31, 1998
- E. William Crotty (1931–1999)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 24, 1998–October 10, 1999
- James A. Daley (1941–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 26, 2000–March 1, 2001
- Earl Norfleet Phillips (1940–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 19, 2002–June 1, 2003
- Mary Kramer (1935–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 3, 2004–October 30, 2006
- Mary Martin Ourisman (1946–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 7, 2006–January 16, 2009
- D. Brent Hardt (1962–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, January 2009–June 2011
- Larry Leon Palmer (1949–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 22, 2012–January 19, 2016
- Linda Swartz Taglialatela (1949–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 1, 2016–
Other Nominees
- Joy A. Silverman (1947–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Nomination of July 11, 1989, not acted upon by the Senate.