List of ambassadors of the United States to Serbia

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

Ambassador of the United States to Serbia
Амбасадор Сједињених Држава у Србији
Ambasador Sjedinjenih Država u Srbiji
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Christopher R. Hill
since March 31, 2022
NominatorThe President of the United States
Inaugural holderEugene Schuyler
as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
FormationNovember 10, 1882
WebsiteU.S. Embassy - Belgrade

U.S. diplomatic terms

Career FSO
After 1915, The United States Department of State began classifying ambassadors as career Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) for those who have served in the Foreign Service for a specified amount of time.

Political appointee
A person who is not a career foreign service officer, but is appointed by the president (often as a reward to political friends).

Appointed
The date that the ambassador took the oath of office; also known as "commissioning". It follows confirmation of a presidential appointment by the Senate, or a Congressional recess appointment by the president. In the case of a recess appointment, the ambassador requires subsequent confirmation by the Senate to remain in office.

Presented credentials
The date that the ambassador presented his letter of credence to the head of state or appropriate authority of the receiving nation. At this time the ambassador officially becomes the representative of his country. This would normally occur a short time after the ambassador's arrival on station. The host nation may reject the ambassador by not receiving the ambassador's letter, but this occurs only rarely.

Terminated mission
Usually the date that the ambassador left the country. In some cases a letter of recall is presented, ending the ambassador's commission, either as a means of diplomatic protest or because the diplomat is being reassigned elsewhere and replaced by another envoy.

Chargé d'affaires
The person in charge of the business of the embassy when there is no ambassador commissioned to the host country.

Ad interim
Latin phrase meaning "for the time being", "in the meantime".

Some parts of today's Serbia had been under the occupation of the Ottoman Empire (from 1459 until 1804) while other parts were occupied by Habsburg monarchy (1526–1804), Austrian Empire (1804–1867), and Austria-Hungary (1867-1918). Upon regaining its independence (partial in 1804 and full in 1878), the Serbian state strengthened and expanded and was in 1918 the driving force behind the creation of Yugoslavia (the land of South Slavs, a multi-ethnic state that over the following seven decades experienced various models of governance). In 1992 Yugoslavia disintegrated, although two of its constituent units - Serbia and Montenegro - continued in the same federal state under the same name Yugoslavia until 2003, when they re-organized into Serbia-Montenegro. After the Montenegrin independence referendum in May 2006, Serbia, as the only remaining unit in the federation, also became independent on 5 June 2006.

The United States established diplomatic relations with Serbia on November 10, 1882 when Eugene Schuyler was appointed resident U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Romania and Greece, in Athens.

Since July 17, 1919, U.S. diplomatic missions were based in Yugoslavia and since May 1992 after the breakup of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbia – United States relations cooled off, were severed after the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The U.S. Embassy formally reopened in Belgrade in May 2001.

The United States Embassy in Serbia is located in Belgrade.

Ambassadors
Portrait Name Title Appointed Presented credentials Terminated mission Notes
Eugene Schuyler – Career FSO[1] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 10, 1882 September 19, 1884 Resident in Athens
Walker Fearn – Career FSO September 19, 1884 September 28, 1885 October 24, 1889 Resident in Athens
A. Loudon Snowden – Career FSO October 24, 1889 November 28, 1889 August 25, 1892 Resident in Athens
Eben Alexander – Career FSO August 25, 1892 June 29, 1894 August 10, 1897 Resident in Athens
William Woodville Rockhill – Career FSO August 10, 1897 May 7, 1898 April 27, 1899 Resident in Athens
Arthur S. Hardy – Career FSO April 27, 1899 June 24, 1900 March 2, 1901 Resident in Athens
Charles S. Francis – Career FSO March 2, 1901 May 13, 1901 December 24, 1902 Resident in Athens
John Brinkerhoff Jackson – Career FSO December 24, 1902 October 13, 1902 July 13, 1905 Resident in Athens
John W. Riddle – Career FSO July 13, 1905 May 7, 1906 January 23, 1907 Resident in Bucharest
Horace G. Knowles – Career FSO January 23, 1907 January 16, 1907 February 4, 1909 Resident in Bucharest
John R. Carter – Career FSO February 4, 1909 May 3, 1910 October 27, 1911 Resident in Bucharest
John Brinkerhoff Jackson – Career FSO October 27, 1911 January 16, 1912 October 15, 1913 Resident in Bucharest
Charles J. Vopicka – Career FSO October 15, 1913 December 15, 1913 December 17, 1918 Resident in Bucharest
For U.S. Ambassadors between 1918 and 1992, please see United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Robert Rackmales Chargés d'affaires ad interim May 1992 N/A July 1993 The United States announced on May 21, 1992, that it would not recognize the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising the republics of Serbia and Montenegro, as the successor to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Rudolf V. Perina July 1993 N/A February 1996
Lawrence Butler February 1996 N/A August 1996
Richard M. Miles August 1996 N/A March 1999 The embassy was closed March 23, 1999. Miles and the last Embassy personnel left March 24, and NATO armed forces began military action against Serbia-Montenegro that evening.
William Dale Montgomery – Career FSO Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 4, 2002 January 4, 2002 February 29, 2004 Montgomery served as Chargés d'affaires ad interim from 2000 to 2002

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia became Serbia-Montenegro in 2003

Michael C. Polt – Career FSO February 29, 2004 May 21, 2004 August 3, 2007[2]
Cameron Munter – Career FSO July 26, 2007 August 15, 2007[3] January 19, 2010
Mary Burce Warlick – Career FSO[4] December 24, 2009 January 28, 2010[5] September 17, 2012
Michael David Kirby – Career FSO August 3, 2012 September 19, 2012 January 29, 2016
Kyle Randolph Scott – Career FSO September 15, 2015 February 5, 2016 September 27, 2019
Anthony Francis Godfrey – Career FSO September 30, 2019 October 24, 2019 February 12, 2022[6]
Christopher Robert Hill – Career FSO March 11, 2022 March 31, 2022

Notes
  1. "US Ambassador to Serbia. US GOVERNMENT OFFICE". Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  2. https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/h/111000.htm
  3. https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/91102.htm
  4. "U.S. Embassy in Serbia". Archived from the original on 2015-10-11. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  5. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/warlick-mary-burce
  6. "Ambassador - Currently Vacant Position". U.S. Embassy in Serbia.

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