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Chiefs of Mission for Qatar
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Chiefs of Mission
- William A. Stoltzfus Jr. (1924–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 19, 1972–August 21, 1974
- Robert Peter Paganelli (1931–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 22, 1974–July 13, 1977
- Andrew Ivy Killgore (1919–2016)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 29, 1977–June 29, 1980
- Charles E. Marthinsen (1931–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 30, 1980–August 1, 1983
- Charles Franklin Dunbar (1937–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 30, 1983–March 23, 1985
- Joseph Ghougassian (1944–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 29, 1985–June 30, 1989
- Mark Gregory Hambley (1948–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 30, 1989–August 15, 1992
- Kenton Wesley Keith (1939–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 2, 1992–July 17, 1995
- Patrick Nickolas Theros (1941–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 12, 1995–November 23, 1998
- Elizabeth Davenport McKune (1947–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 6, 1998–June 20, 2001
- Maureen E. Quinn (1956–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 24, 2001–July 12, 2004
- Chase Untermeyer (1946–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 7, 2004–August 19, 2007
- Joseph Evan LeBaron (1947–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 3, 2008–July 27, 2011
- Susan L. Ziadeh (1951–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 9, 2011–August 11, 2014
- Dana Shell Smith (1970–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 8, 2014–June 20, 2017
- William Grant (?–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, August 1, 2018–March 2, 2020
Other Nominees
- Mary Catherine Phee (1963–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Nomination of November 13, 2018 returned by the Senate on January 3, 2019.