List of ambassadors of the United States to Kyrgyzstan

This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Kyrgyzstan.

Ambassador of the United States to Kyrgyzstan
Seal of the United States Department of State
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Incumbent Lesslie Viguerie since December 29, 2022
Nominator	The president of the United States
Appointer	The president with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder	Edward Hurwitz as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Formation	August 11, 1992
Website	U.S. Embassy - Bishkek

Until 1991 the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic had been a constituent SSR of the Soviet Union. Upon the breakup of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet of Kyrgyzstan declared itself independent of the Soviet Union on August 31, 1991, and renamed itself the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. The United States recognized Kyrgyzstan on December 26, 1991. An embassy was established in the capital, Bishkek, on February 1, 1992, with Edmund McWilliams as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim. Relations between the United States and Kyrgyzstan have been continuous since that time.

The U.S. Embassy in Kyrgyzstan is located in Bishkek.

Ambassadors

Name	Title	Appointed	Presented credentials	Terminated mission	Notes
Edward Hurwitz – Career FSO	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 11, 1992	September 17, 1992	October 11, 1994
Eileen A. Malloy – Career FSO		August 26, 1994	October 25, 1994	July 7, 1997
Anne M. Sigmund – Career FSO		August 1, 1997	September 30, 1997	August 10, 2000
John Martin O'Keefe – Career FSO		June 14, 2000	September 23, 2000	July 6, 2003
Stephen M. Young – Career FSO		April 16, 2003	August 26, 2003	August 17, 2005[1]
Marie Yovanovitch – Career FSO		November 20, 2004	February 4, 2005	February 4, 2008
Tatiana C. Gfoeller – Career FSO		October 22, 2008	October 14, 2008	March 8, 2011
Pamela L. Spratlen – Career FSO		April 15, 2011	May 24, 2011[2]	December 12, 2014
Richard Miles – Career FSO	Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim	February 13, 2015	N/A	October 14, 2015
Sheila Gwaltney – Career FSO	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 6, 2015	October 14, 2015	August 2, 2017
John Bernlohr	Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim	August 2, 2017	N/A	September 18, 2018
Donald Lu – Career FSO	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 18, 2018	October 12, 2018	September 14, 2021
Sonata Coulter – Career FSO	Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim	September 14, 2021	N/A	November 2022
Lesslie Viguerie – Career FSO	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 29, 2022	December 29, 2022	Incumbent

See also

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