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The Senior Foreign Service (SFS) comprises the top four ranks of the United States Foreign Service.These ranks were created by the Foreign Service Act of 1980 and Executive Order 12293 in order to provide the Foreign Service with senior grades equivalent to general and flag ranks in the military and naval establishments, respectively, and to grades in the Senior Executive Service.
Confirmed appointees who are Career Members of the Senior Executive Service or Senior Foreign Service. CD, or career diplomats, denotes ambassadors who were appointed from the U.S. Foreign Service. PA, or political appointees, denotes ambassadors who were not appointed from the Foreign Service.
Under the 1980 Foreign Service Act (P.L. 96-465; 94 Stat. 2084), which repealed the 1946 Act as amended, the President is empowered with the advice and consent of the Senate to confer the personal rank of Career Ambassador upon a career member of the Senior Foreign Service in recognition of especially distinguished service over a sustained period.
Lucile Atcherson Curtis was the first woman in what became the U.S. Foreign Service. [13] Specifically, she was the first woman appointed as a United States Diplomatic Officer or Consular Officer, in 1923 (the U.S. did not establish the unified Foreign Service until 1924, at which time diplomatic and consular Officers became Foreign Service officers).
This is a list of United States ambassadors appointed by the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.. Biden appointed more ambassadors who are career members of the foreign service compared to former president Donald Trump, who deviated from the 70 percent norm by nominating 56 percent career foreign service members. [1]
Siberell is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Minister-Counselor. [2] Siberell served in embassy and consulate postings in Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and Panama, and as United States Consul General in Dubai. [3] In 2012 he was assigned to the U.S. Department of State's Counter Terrorism Bureau. [2]
The highest-ranking senior enlisted advisors represent the service branches of the uniformed services of the United States and advise the four-star chief of their service branch on enlisted matters: The Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman (SEAC) The Sergeant Major of the Army (SMA) The Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (SMMC)
Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. §§ 5311–5318) is the system of salaries given to the highest-ranked appointed officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government. . The president of the United States appoints individuals to these positions, most with the advice and consent of the United States Sena