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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.
This is a list of United States ambassadors appointed by the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.. Biden has 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]
Under the 1980 Foreign Service Act (P.L. 96-465; 94 Stat. 2084), which repealed the 1946 Act as amended, the President is empowered with the advice and consent of the Senate to confer the personal rank of Career Ambassador upon a career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.
Stephen D. Mull (born April 30, 1958) is a Senior Foreign Service officer who was most recently the Acting Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.He previously served as United States Ambassador to Poland, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and United States Ambassador to Lithuania.
Jim Barnhart was a U.S. Agency for International Development senior foreign service career minister, serving as mission director in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Both are now executives at J ...
Welton is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Minister-Counselor.Welton began her career in the United States Information Agency, where she served in South Korea as the Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer in Seoul; she also served as the American Center Director in Daegu, later serving in the same role in Fukuoka, Japan.
W. Patrick Murphy [2] (born 1963) is a career U.S. diplomat.A Senior Foreign Service Officer, he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2018 to 2019, fulfilling the duties of Acting Assistant Secretary, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Southeast Asia and Multilateral Affairs, 2016–2018.
A Foreign Service officer (FSO) is a commissioned member of the United States Foreign Service. FSOs formulate and implement the foreign policy of the United States .