The United States Ambassador to Moldova is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state

Head of State

A head of state is the individual that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchy, republic, federation, commonwealth or other kind of state. His or her role generally includes legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions, and duties granted to the head of...

 of Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

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Until 1991, the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic had been a constituent SSR

Republics of the Soviet Union

The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics of the Soviet Union were ethnically-based administrative units that were subordinated directly to the Government of the Soviet Union...

 of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the disintegration of the federal political structures and central government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , resulting in the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union between March 11, 1990 and December 25, 1991...

, the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR declared itself independent on August 27, 1991 and renamed itself the Republic of Moldova. The United States recognized Moldova on December 26, 1991, and established diplomatic relations February 18, 1992. The U.S. embassy in Chişinău was established March 13, 1992, with Howard Steers as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim

Ad interim

The Latin phrase ad interim literally means "in the time between" denotes the meaning of "in the meantime", "for an intervening time" or "temporarily" in the English language...

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Ambassadors and chiefs of mission

• Howard Steers – Career FSO
  • Title: Chargé d’Affaires a.i.
  • Appointed: February 18, 1992
  • Presented credentials: —
  • Terminated mission: Superseded by ambassador, August 26, 1992

• Mary Pendleton – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: August 11, 1992
  • Presented credentials: August 26, 1992
  • Terminated mission: Left post August 12, 1995

• John Todd Stewart – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 3, 1995
  • Presented credentials: November 16, 1995
  • Terminated mission: Left post August 5, 1998

• Rudolf V. Perina – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 29, 1998
  • Presented credentials: September 11, 1998
  • Terminated mission: Left post September 23, 2001

• Pamela Hyde Smith – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 1, 2001
  • Presented credentials: November 29, 2001
  • Terminated mission: Left post May 10, 2003

• Heather M. Hodges
  Heather M. Hodges
  Heather M. Hodges is a career United States foreign service officer and ambassador. She was the United States Ambassador to Ecuador and a previous ambassador to Moldova.- Biography :...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: April 16, 2003
  • Presented credentials: October 3, 2003
  • Terminated mission: Left post April 9, 2006

• Michael D. Kirby – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 30, 2006
  • Presented credentials: September 21, 2006
  • Terminated mission: Left post June 25, 2008

• Asif J. Chaudhry – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 11, 2008
  • Presented credentials: September 24, 2008
  • Terminated mission: Left post July 25, 2011

• Marcus Micheli, as Chargé d’Affaires a.i. since July 25, 2008

See also

• Embassy of the United States in Chişinău
• Embassy of Moldova in Washington, D.C.
• Moldova – United States relations
• Foreign relations of Moldova
  Foreign relations of Moldova
  After achieving independence from the Soviet Union, Moldova had established relations with other European countries. A course for European Union integration and neutrality define the country's foreign policy guidelines....
  
  
• Ambassadors of the United States

External links

• United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Moldova
• United States Department of State: Moldova
• United States Embassy in Chinisau