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Deputy Chief of Mission

A Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM, in Europe a term Deputy Head of Mission is used instead of), is the number-two diplomat assigned to an embassy or other diplomatic mission.


Barbara J. Stephenson

Barbara J. Stephenson is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in London, and is acting as Charge d'Affaires following the departure of Ambassador Louis Susman.


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Carol van Voorst

From 1999 to 2002, she served as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki, Finland after previously serving as the Deputy High Representative in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Donald Lu

Before he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, he served as the Chargé d'affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission for United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan from July 4, 2009 through July 2010, when the office of the Ambassador to Azerbaijan had not been filled yet.

Donald R. Norland

He was later deputy chief of mission and chargé d'affaires at in Conakry, Guinea.

Gilbert School

John A. Bushnell '51, Fulbright Scholar; deputy chief of mission to the U.S. embassy in Panama during the United States invasion of Panama; National Security Council member; nominee, U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica.

James Howard Holmes

1992-1995 Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey

Mary Ann Peters

A senior diplomat, fluent in six foreign languages, Ambassador Peters has also served in Sofia, Bulgaria, as deputy chief of mission; in Moscow as economic counselor; and in Mandalay as principal officer.

Owen W. Roberts

He was political officer in Lagos from 1964 to 1965, and deputy chief of mission in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 1966 to 1968.

Pamela E. Bridgewater

From 1996 to 1999 she was Deputy Chief of Mission in Nassau, Bahamas.

Pamela J. H. Slutz

Ambassador Slutz then served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya (2006-2009) before being nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S. Ambassador to Burundi (2009-2012).

Rush Walker Taylor, Jr.

He was then assigned as principal officer at the consulate in Oporto, Portugal in 1972 to 1975, and deputy chief of mission in Nassau, Bahamas, from 1975 to 1978.

United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic

The previous ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Adrian A. Basora, continued as the ambassador to the Czech Republic and Theodore Russell, who served as deputy chief of mission under Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, became the first U.S. ambassador to Slovakia later that year.