The United States Ambassador to Grenada is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Grenada

Grenada

Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...

. The ambassador is the United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean

United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean

The Ambassador of the United States to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean is the official title of the U.S. Ambassador to several island nations of the Caribbean. The ambassador concurrently represents the United States to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St....

, resident in Bridgetown, Barbados, and is concurrently the ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...

, Barbados

Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

, Dominica

Dominica

Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...

, St. Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis

The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis , located in the Leeward Islands, is a federal two-island nation in the West Indies. It is the smallest sovereign state in the Americas, in both area and population....

, St. Lucia

Saint Lucia

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, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....

.

The U.S. Government established an Embassy in Grenada at St. George's

St. George's, Grenada

St. George's, population 89,018 , with an agglomeration of 4,500 people , is the capital of Grenada, . The city is surrounded by a hillside of an old volcano crater and is on a horseshoe-shaped harbor....

 on 2 February 1984. The U.S. Ambassador to Grenada is resident in Bridgetown

Bridgetown

The city of Bridgetown , metropolitan pop 96,578 , is the capital and largest city of the nation of Barbados. Formerly, the Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael...

, Barbados.

List of U.S. Ambassadors to Grenada

The following is a list of U.S. ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Grenada. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Appointed by
Theodore R. Britton, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....	February 25, 1975	April 22, 1977	Gerald Ford Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...
Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. Frank Vincent Ortiz, Jr. , was an American diplomat. He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, and Grenada as well as Special Representative to Dominica, Saint Lucia, Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 29, 1977	May 15, 1979	Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
Sally Shelton-Colby Sally Shelton-Colby Sally Shelton-Colby is a Democratic American diplomat. She was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia, and Special Representative to Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St. Vincent from 1979 to 1981, under Jimmy...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 23, 1979	February 24, 1981
Charles A. Gillespie	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	February 2, 1984	March 1984	Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
Loren E. Lawrence	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	March 1984	December 1984
Roy T. Haverkamp	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	December 1984	March 1986
John C. Leary	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	March 1986	January 9, 1987
	Chargé d'Affaires	January 9, 1987	May 1988
James Ford Cooper	Chargé d'Affaires	June 1988	January 1991
Annette T. Veler	Chargé d'Affaires	July 1991	July 1993	George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
Ollie P. Anderson, Jr.	Chargé d'Affaires	September 1993	September 1994	Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
Dennis F. Carter	Chargé d'Affaires	December 1994	March 1995
Jeanette W. Hyde Jeanette W. Hyde Jeanette W. Hyde is an American diplomat. She was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia from 1994 to 1998, and to Antigua, Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1995 to 1998, under Bill Clinton.-Biography:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 4, 1995	January 31, 1998
E. William Crotty	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 30, 1999	October 10, 1999
James A. Daley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 17, 2000	March 1, 2001
Earl Norfleet Phillips Earl Norfleet Phillips Earl Norfleet Phillips is an American diplomat. He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 2002 to 2003, under George W. Bush.-Biography:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 26, 2002	June 1, 2003	George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
Mary Kramer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 5, 2004	October 30, 2006
Mary Martin Ourisman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 18, 2007	2008
Brent Hardt	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 1, 2009	June 19, 2011
Christopher Sandrolini	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	June 19, 2011	Incumbent

See also

• Grenada – United States relations
• Foreign relations of Grenada
  Foreign relations of Grenada
  The United States, Venezuela, Cuba, and the People's Republic of China have embassies in Grenada. Grenada has been recognized by most members of the United Nations and maintains diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela, and Canada....
  
  
• Ambassadors of the United States

External links

• United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Grenada
• United States Department of State: Grenada
• United States Embassy in Bridgetown