List of Department of State appointments by Donald Trump

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

Key
	Appointees serving in offices that did not require Senate confirmation.
	Appointees confirmed by the Senate.
	Appointees awaiting Senate confirmation.
	Appointees serving in an acting capacity.
	Appointees who have left office or offices which have been disbanded.
	Nominees who were withdrawn prior to being confirmed or assuming office.

Appointments (first administration)

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]
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
Under Secretary of State (Arms Control and International Security Affairs)	Christopher Ford	October 21, 2019	January 8, 2021
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)
Assistant Secretary of State (African Affairs)	Tibor P. Nagy[10]	July 23, 2018 (Confirmed June 28, 2018, voice vote)
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 (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 (Near Eastern Affairs)	David Schenker[20]	June 14, 2019 (Confirmed June 5, 2019, 83–11)[21]
Assistant Secretary of State (Political-Military Affairs)	R. Clarke Cooper[22]	May 2, 2019 (Confirmed April 30, 2019, 90–8)[23]
Chief of Protocol	Cam Henderson[24]	August 12, 2019
Assistant Secretary of State (Administration)	Carrie Cabelka[25]	August 20, 2019[26]
Coordinator for Counterterrorism	Nathan Sales	August 10, 2017 (Confirmed August 3, 2017, voice vote)
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]
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 (first administration)

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]

Appointments (second administration)

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Secretary of State	Marco Rubio[65]	January 21, 2025 (Confirmed January 20, 2025, 99–0)[RC2 1]
	Lisa D. Kenna[66]	January 20, 2025	January 21, 2025
Deputy Secretary of State	Christopher Landau[67]	March 25, 2025 (Confirmed March 24, 2025, 60–31)[RC2 2]
Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources	Michael Rigas[68]	May 19, 2025 (Confirmed May 14, 2025, 51–46)[RC2 3]
Legal Adviser of the Department of State	Reed Rubinstein	May 26, 2025 (Confirmed May 15, 2025, 51–46)[RC2 4]
	Joshua Simmons	March 29, 2025	May 26, 2025
	Richard C. Visek	January 20, 2025	March 29, 2025
Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment	Jacob Helberg[69]	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Thomas E. Lertsen	January 20, 2025
Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security	Thomas DiNanno	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Brent T. Christensen	January 20, 2025
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs	Allison Hooker	June 5, 2025 (Confirmed June 3, 2025, 59–36)[RC2 5]
	Lisa D. Kenna	January 20, 2025	June 5, 2025
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs	Sarah Rogers	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Darren Beattie[70]	February 4, 2025
Under Secretary of State for Management	John Evans	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	José Cunningham	April 5, 2025
	Tibor P. Nagy	January 20, 2025	April 4, 2025
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs	Michael G. DeSombre	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Y. Kevin Kim	July 18, 2025
	Sean O'Neill	January 20, 2025	July 18, 2025
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs	Jeremy Carl	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	McCoy Pitt	January 20, 2025
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs	Paul Kapur	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Eric Meyer	January 20, 2025
Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs	Caleb Orr	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
Assistant Secretary of State (Population, Refugees, and Migration)	Andrew Veprek	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Spencer Chretien	April 27, 2025
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs	Joel Rayburn	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Mora Namdar	May 19, 2025
	Timothy A. Lenderking	January 20, 2025	May 19, 2025
Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs	Mora Namdar	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	John Armstrong	February 27, 2025
	Julie Stufft	January 20, 2025	February 27, 2025
Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security	Todd Wilcox	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	Paul R. Houston	June 2, 2025
	Carlos Matus	January 20, 2025	May 30, 2025
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs	Christopher Pratt	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
	James Holtsnider	January 20, 2025
Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs	Frank Weiland	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
		January 20, 2025	June 30, 2025
	Chris Landberg	June 30, 2025
Chief of Protocol	Monica Crowley[71]	May 30, 2025 (Confirmed May 12, 2025, 52–45)[RC2 6]
Counselor of the Department of State	Michael Needham[72]	January 20, 2025
Director of Policy Planning	Michael Anton[73]
Spokeswoman for the Department of State	Tammy Bruce[74]

Notes

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

Confirmation votes

Confirmations by roll call vote (first administration)

Confirmations by voice vote (first administration)

Confirmations by roll call vote (second administration)

1. "PN11-13 - Marco Rubio, of Florida, to be Secretary of State, 119th Congress (2025–2027)". www.congress.gov. January 20, 2025. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
2. "PN12-25 - Christopher Landau, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of State, 119th Congress (2025–2027)". www.congress.gov. March 24, 2025. Retrieved March 28, 2025.
3. "PN12-38 - Michael Rigas, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, 119th Congress (2025–2027)". www.congress.gov. May 14, 2025. Retrieved June 10, 2025.
4. "PN25-50 - Reed Rubinstein, of Maryland, to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State, 119th Congress (2025–2027)". www.congress.gov. May 13, 2025. Retrieved June 10, 2025.
5. "PN25-19 - Allison Hooker, of Georgia, to be an Under Secretary of State (Political Affairs), 119th Congress (2025–2027)". www.congress.gov. June 3, 2025. Retrieved June 10, 2025.
6. "PN12-10 - Monica Crowley, of New York, to be Chief of Protocol and to have the rank of Ambassador, 119th Congress (2025–2027)". www.congress.gov. May 12, 2025. Retrieved June 10, 2025.

Confirmations by voice vote (second administration)