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Chiefs of Mission for Malta
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Chiefs of Mission
- Harrison Lewis (1905–1985)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, September 21, 1964–
- George Joseph Feldman (1904–1994)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 5, 1965–September 6, 1967
- Hugh Heyne Smythe (1913–1977)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 29, 1967–August 16, 1969
- John Charles Pritzlaff Jr. (1925–2005)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 4, 1969–February 24, 1972
- John Ives Getz (1917–2003)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 9, 1972–July 18, 1974
- Robert Powell Smith (1929–2012)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 24, 1974–October 29, 1976
- Lowell Bruce Laingen (1922–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 11, 1977–January 20, 1979
- Joan Margaret Clark (1922–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 26, 1979–February 21, 1981
- Frank P. Wardlaw (1944–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, February 1981–August 1982
- James Malone Rentschler (1933–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 19, 1982–July 26, 1985
- Gary L. Matthews (1938–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 19, 1985–May 23, 1987
- Peter R. Sommer (1938–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 9, 1987–October 8, 1989
- Sally Johnson Novetzke (1932–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 9, 1989–February 28, 1993
- William A. Moffitt (1944–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, February 1993–June 1994
- Joseph R. Paolino Jr. (1955–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 6, 1994–June 2, 1996
- Charles N. Patterson Jr. (1943–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, June 1996–July 1997
- Kathryn Linda Haycock Proffitt (1951–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 8, 1998–March 1, 2001
- Anthony H. Gioia (1941–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 6, 2001–December 7, 2004
- Molly Hering Bordonaro (1968–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 7, 2005–February 6, 2009
- Douglas Kmiec (1951–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 17, 2009–May 31, 2011
- Gina K. Abercrombie-Winstanley (1957–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 2, 2012–January 26, 2016
- G. Kathleen Hill (1964–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 25, 2016–September 29, 2018
- Mark A. Schapiro (?–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, September 29, 2018–August 31, 2020
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