Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 2021

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • Antony Blinken (1962–)
    • Deputy Secretary of State (2015–2017)
    • Secretary of State (2021)
  • Callista L. Gingrich (1966–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Holy See (2017–2021)
  • Michael R. Pompeo (1963–)
    • Secretary of State (2018–2021)
  • *Daniel Bennett Smith (1956–)
    • Executive Secretary (2007–2009)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (2010–2013)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (2014–2018)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (2018)
    • Career Ambassador (2018)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (2021)