List of ambassadors of the United States to Panama

The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with Panama since its separation from Colombia in 1903. The rank of the U.S. chief of mission to Panama was originally Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, but it was upgraded to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1939.

Ambassador of the United States to Panama
Seal of the United States Department of State
Flag of a United States ambassador
Incumbent Kevin Marino Cabrera since May 5, 2025
Nominator	The president of the United States
Appointer	The president with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder	William Insco Buchanan (as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
Formation	December 17, 1903
Website	U.S. Embassy - Panama City

Normal diplomatic relations between the United States and Panama have been interrupted only once, from January 10 to April 3, 1964, in the aftermath of the Martyrs' Day riots over sovereignty.

List of ambassadors

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Panama. 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	Appointed by
William I. Buchanan	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary[1]	December 17, 1903	February 2, 1904	Theodore Roosevelt
John Barrett		July 22, 1904	May 13, 1905
Charles E. Magoon		August 7, 1905	September 25, 1906
Herbert G. Squiers		November 8, 1906	August 3, 1909
R. S. Reynolds Hitt		March 26, 1910	July 19, 1910	William H. Taft
Thomas C. Dawson		September 24, 1910	December 1, 1910
Henry Percival Dodge		November 9, 1911	June 10, 1913
William Jennings Price		October 11, 1913	December 28, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
John Glover South		December 28, 1921	January 5, 1930	Warren G. Harding
Roy T. Davis		March 14, 1930	September 20, 1933	Herbert Hoover
Antonio C. Gonzalez		October 11, 1933	January 9, 1935	Franklin D. Roosevelt
George T. Summerlin		March 8, 1935	July 7, 1937
Frank P. Corrigan		September 2, 1937	June 14, 1939
William Dawson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 14, 1939	April 21, 1941
Edwin C. Wilson		May 23, 1941	September 23, 1943
Avra M. Warren		June 22, 1944	January 5, 1945
Frank T. Hines		November 1, 1945	February 20, 1948	Harry S. Truman
Monnett B. Davis		May 28, 1948	January 24, 1951
John C. Wiley		July 25, 1951	November 27, 1953
Selden Chapin		January 22, 1954	May 29, 1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Julian F. Harrington		August 30, 1955	July 14, 1960
Joseph S. Farland		August 29, 1960	August 31, 1963
Wallace W. Stuart	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	September 1963	January 10, 1964	Lyndon B. Johnson
Henry L. Taylor		April 3, 1964	May 6, 1964
Jack Hood Vaughn	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 6, 1964	February 27, 1965
Charles W. Adair, Jr.		May 13, 1965	September 6, 1969
Robert M. Sayre		October 31, 1969	March 14, 1974	Richard Nixon
William J. Jorden		April 17, 1974	August 25, 1978
Ambler Hodges Moss, Jr.		October 6, 1978	July 15, 1982	Jimmy Carter
Everett Ellis Briggs		October 29, 1982	February 24, 1986	Ronald Reagan
Arthur H. Davis, Jr.		April 4, 1986	January 3, 1990
Deane Roesch Hinton		January 9, 1990	February 12, 1994	George H. W. Bush
Oliver P. Garza	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	February 12, 1994	November 7, 1995	Bill Clinton
William J. Hughes	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 7, 1995	October 13, 1998
Simon Ferro		February 26, 1999	March 1, 2001
Linda Ellen Watt		December 17, 2002	June 3, 2005	George W. Bush
William A. Eaton		September 9, 2005	July 5, 2008[2]
Barbara J. Stephenson		August 6, 2008[3]	July 14, 2010
Phyllis M. Powers[4]		August 8, 2010	April 3, 2012	Barack Obama
John Law[5]	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	April 3, 2012	May 15, 2012
Jonathan D. Farrar[6]	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 15, 2012	June 5, 2015
John D. Feeley[7]		December 9, 2015	March 9, 2018
Roxanne Cabral	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	March 9, 2018	January 16, 2020	Donald Trump
Philip Laidlaw		January 16, 2020	August 1, 2020
Stewart Tuttle		August 1, 2020	November 21, 2022
				Joe Biden
Mari Carmen Aponte	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 21, 2022	January 20, 2025
John Barrett	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 20, 2025	April 28, 2025	Donald Trump
Kevin Marino Cabrera	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 5, 2025	Incumbent

See also

• Panama – United States relations
• Foreign relations of Panama
• Ambassadors of the United States