Permanent representatives
Permanent Representatives of United States to the United Nations
44 recorded, most recent first.
| Name | Office | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Waltz | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2025-09-21 | in office / not recorded |
| Linda Thomas-Greenfield | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2021-02-25 | in office / not recorded |
| Richard M. Mills, Jr. | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2021-01-20 | 2021-02-25 |
| Kelly Craft | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2019-09-12 | 2021-01-20 |
| Jonathan Cohen | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2019-01-01 | 2019-09-12 |
| Nikki Haley | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2017-01-27 | 2018-12-31 |
| Michele J. Sison | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2017-01-20 | 2017-01-27 |
| Claire Underwood | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2015-04-01 | 2015-11-01 |
| Samantha Power | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2013-08-05 | 2017-01-20 |
| Rosemary DiCarlo | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2013-06-30 | 2013-08-05 |
| Susan Rice | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2009-01-22 | 2013-06-30 |
| Zalmay Khalilzad | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2007-04-30 | 2009-01-20 |
| Alejandro Daniel Wolff | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2006-12-31 | 2007-04-30 |
| John Bolton | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2005-08-01 | 2006-12-09 |
| Anne W. Patterson | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2005-01-20 | 2005-08-01 |
| John Danforth | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2004-07-23 | 2005-01-20 |
| John Negroponte | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2001-09-19 | 2004-06-23 |
| James Cunningham | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 2001-01-20 | 2001-09-19 |
| Richard Holbrooke | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1999-09-07 | 2001-01-20 |
| Peter Burleigh | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1998-08-18 | 1999-09-07 |
| Bill Richardson | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1997-02-18 | 1998-08-18 |
| Madeleine Albright | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1993-01-27 | 1997-01-21 |
| Edward J. Perkins | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1992-05-12 | 1993-01-27 |
| Thomas R. Pickering | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1989-03-20 | 1992-05-07 |
| Vernon A. Walters | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1985-05-22 | 1989-03-15 |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1981-02-04 | 1985-04-01 |
| Donald McHenry | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1979-09-23 | 1981-01-20 |
| Andrew Young | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1977-01-30 | 1979-09-23 |
| William Scranton | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1976-03-15 | 1977-01-19 |
| James E. Baker | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1976 | 1980 |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1975-06-30 | 1976-02-02 |
| John A. Scali | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1973-02-20 | 1975-06-29 |
| George H. W. Bush | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1971-03-01 | 1973-01-18 |
| Charles Woodruff Yost | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1969-01-23 | 1971-02-25 |
| James Russell Wiggins | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1968-10-07 | 1969-01-20 |
| George Ball | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1968-06-26 | 1968-09-25 |
| Arthur Goldberg | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1965-07-28 | 1968-06-24 |
| Adlai Stevenson II | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1961-01-23 | 1965-07-14 |
| James Jeremiah Wadsworth | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1960-09-08 | 1961-01-21 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1953-01-26 | 1960-09-03 |
| Warren Austin | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1947-01-14 | 1953-01-22 |
| Herschel Johnson | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1946-06-03 | 1947-01-14 |
| Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | 1946-01-17 | 1946-06-03 |
| Nancy McNally | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | - | in office / not recorded |
This is what the cited sources record, not a complete diplomatic history. A gap means the record we can reach is silent, not that the post was vacant.