| 1949 |
Edward R. Dudley |
Liberia |
Not Applicable |
| 1953 |
Jessie D. Locker |
Liberia |
Not Applicable |
| 1955 |
Richard L. Jones |
Liberia |
Not Applicable |
| 1959 |
John Howard Morrow |
Guinea |
Not Applicable |
| 1961 |
Clifton R. Wharton |
Norway |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1961 |
Mercer Cook |
Niger |
Not Applicable |
| 1963 |
Carl T. Rowan |
Finland |
Not Applicable |
| 1964 |
Mercer Cook |
Senegal |
Not Applicable |
| 1964 |
Clinton E. Knox |
Dahomey |
Not Applicable |
| 1965 |
Mercer Cook |
The Gambia |
Not Applicable |
| 1965 |
Patricia Roberts Harris |
Luxembourg |
Not Applicable |
| 1965 |
Hugh H. Smythe |
Syrian Arab Republic |
Not Applicable |
| 1965 |
Franklin H. Williams |
Ghana |
Not Applicable |
| 1966 |
Elliot P. Skinner |
Upper Volta |
Not Applicable |
| 1967 |
Hugh H. Smythe |
Malta |
Not Applicable |
| 1968 |
Samuel C. Adams |
Niger |
Not Applicable |
| 1969 |
Clinton E. Knox |
Haiti |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1969 |
Terence A. Todman |
Chad |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1969 |
Samuel Z. Westerfield |
Liberia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1970 |
Jerome Heartwell Holland |
Sweden |
Not Applicable |
| 1970 |
Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr. |
Uganda |
Not Applicable |
| 1971 |
Charles J. Nelson |
Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland |
Not Applicable |
| 1971 |
John E. Reinhardt |
Nigeria |
Career Foreign Service Information Officer |
| 1972 |
W. Beverly Carter |
Tanzania |
Career Foreign Service AID Officer |
| 1972 |
Terence A. Todman |
Guinea |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1973 |
O. Rudolph Aggrey |
Senegal and The Gambia |
Career Foreign Service Information Officer |
| 1974 |
David B. Bolen |
Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland |
Not Applicable |
| 1974 |
Theodore R. Britten, Jr. |
Barbados and Grenada |
Not Applicable |
| 1974 |
Terence A. Todman |
Costa Rica |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1976 |
W. Beverly Carter |
Liberia |
Career Foreign Service Information Officer |
| 1976 |
Ronald D. Palmer |
Togo |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1976 |
Charles A. James |
Niger |
Career Foreign Service AID Officer |
| 1977 |
Andrew Young |
USUN New York |
Not Applicable |
| 1977 |
Wilbert J. LeMelle |
Kenya |
Not Applicable |
| 1977 |
Ulrich Haynes |
Algeria |
Not Applicable |
| 1977 |
Mabel M. Smythe |
Cameroon |
Not Applicable |
| 1977 |
Richard K. Fox, Jr. |
Trinidad and Tobago |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1977 |
David B. Bolen |
German Dem. Rep. |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1977 |
William B. Jones |
Haiti |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1977 |
Maurice D. Bean |
Burma |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1977 |
O. Rudolph Aggrey |
Romania |
Career Foreign Service AID Officer |
| 1978 |
Terence A. Todman |
Spain |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1979 |
Donald F. McHenry |
USUN New York |
Not Applicable |
| 1979 |
Horace G. Dawson |
Botswana |
Career Foreign Service Information Officer |
| 1979 |
Anne F. Holloway |
Mali |
Not Applicable |
| 1980 |
Walter C. Carrington |
Senegal |
Not Applicable |
| 1980 |
Barbara M. Watson |
Malaysia |
Not Applicable |
| 1981 |
John A. Burroughs, Jr. |
Malawi |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1981 |
Ronald D. Palmer |
Malaysia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1981 |
Melvin H. Evans |
Trinidad and Tobago |
Not Applicable |
| 1981 |
Gerald E. Thomas |
Guyana |
Not Applicable |
| 1982 |
Howard K. Walker |
Togo |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1983 |
Arthur W. Lewis |
Sierra Leone |
Career Foreign Service Information Officer |
| 1983 |
Terence A. Todman |
Denmark |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1983 |
Gerald E. Thomas |
Kenya |
Not Applicable |
| 1983 |
George E. Moose |
Benin |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1985 |
Edward J. Perkins |
Liberia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1985 |
Irvin Hicks |
Seychelles |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1986 |
Ronald D. Palmer |
Mauritius |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1986 |
Cynthia Shepard Perry |
Sierra Leone |
Not Applicable |
| 1986 |
Edward J. Perkins |
South Africa |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1988 |
George E. Moose |
Senegal |
Not Applicable |
| 1989 |
Cynthia Shepard Perry |
Burundi |
Not Applicable |
| 1989 |
Stephen J. Rhodes |
Zimbabwe |
Not Applicable |
| 1989 |
Terence A. Todman |
Argentina |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1989 |
Howard K. Walker |
Madagascar |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1989 |
Ruth V. Washington |
The Gambia |
Not Applicable |
| 1989 |
Johnny Young |
Sierra Leone |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1990 |
Aurelia Erskine Brazeal |
Micronesia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1990 |
Arlene Render |
The Gambia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1990 |
Leonard O. Spearman, Sr. |
Lesotho |
Not Applicable |
| 1991 |
Charles R. Baquet, III |
Djibouti |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1991 |
Johnnie Carson |
Uganda |
Not Applicable |
| 1992 |
Ruth A. Davis |
Benin |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1992 |
Kenton Wesley Keith |
Qatar |
Career Foreign Service Information Officer |
| 1992 |
Edward J. Perkins |
USUN New York |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1992 |
Joseph Monroe Segars |
Cape Verde |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1993 |
Aurelia Erskine Brazeal |
Kenya |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1993 |
Walter C. Carrington |
Nigeria |
Not Applicable |
| 1993 |
Edward J. Perkins |
Australia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1993 |
Leslie M. Alexander |
Mauritius |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1993 |
Howard F. Jeter |
Botswana |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1994 |
Sidney Williams |
Bahamas |
Not Applicable |
| 1994 |
Irvin Hicks |
Ethiopia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1994 |
Johnny Young |
Togo |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1994 |
Carl B. Stokes |
Seychelles |
Not Applicable |
| 1994 |
Jerome Gary Cooper |
Jamaica |
Not Applicable |
| 1995 |
Johnnie Carson |
Zimbabwe |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1995 |
Bismark Myrick |
Lesotho |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1995 |
Mosina H. Jordan |
Central African Republic |
Career Foreign Service AID Officer |
| 1995 |
James A. Joseph |
South Africa |
Not Applicable |
| 1996 |
Leslie M. Alexander |
Ecuador |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1996 |
John F. Hicks, Sr. |
Eritrea |
Career Foreign Service AID Officer |
| 1996 |
Arlene Render |
Zambia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1996 |
Sharon P. Wilkinson |
Burkina Faso |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1997 |
Betty Eileen King |
US Rep. ECOSOC/UN |
Not Applicable |
| 1997 |
George E. Moose |
Geneva |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1997 |
Johnny Young |
Bahrain |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1998 |
Shirley E. Barnes |
Madagascar |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1998 |
William D. Clarke |
Eritrea |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1998 |
George Williford Boyce Haley |
The Gambia |
Not Applicable |
| 1998 |
Elizabeth McKune |
Qatar |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1998 |
Robert C. Perry |
Central African Republic |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1998 |
George McDade Staples |
Rwanda |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1998 |
Charles R. Stith |
Tanzania |
Not Applicable |
| 1999 |
Johnnie Carson |
Kenya |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1999 |
Harriet L. Elam-Thomas |
Senegal |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1999 |
Gregory L. Johnson |
Swaziland |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1999 |
Delano Eugene Lewis, Sr. |
South Africa |
Not Applicable |
| 1999 |
Carol Moseley-Braun |
New Zealand |
Not Applicable |
| 1999 |
Bismark Myrick |
Liberia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1999 |
Sylvia Gaye Stanfield |
Brunei Darussalam |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 1999 |
Diane E. Watson |
Micronesia |
Not Applicable |
| 2000 |
Howard F. Jeter |
Nigeria |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2000 |
Pamela E.Bridgewater |
Benin |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2000 |
Sharon P. Wilkinson |
Mozambique |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2001 |
George McDade Staples |
Cameroon/Equatorial Guinea |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2001 |
Johnny Young |
Slovenia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2001 |
Roy L. Austin |
Trinidad and Tobago |
Not Applicable |
| 2001 |
Arlene Render |
Cote d’Ivoire |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2001 |
Mattie R. Sharpless |
Central African Republic |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2001 |
Wanda L. Nesbitt |
Madagascar |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2002 |
James David McGee |
Swaziland |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2002 |
Larry L. Palmer |
Honduras |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2002 |
Richard Lewis Baltimore |
Oman |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2002 |
Joseph Huggins |
Botswana |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2002 |
James I. Gadsden |
Iceland |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2002 |
Aurelia Erskine Brazeal |
Ethiopia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2002 |
Robin Renee Sanders |
Congo |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2002 |
Charles Aaron Ray |
Cambodia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2002 |
Gail Denise Mathieu |
Níger |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2003 |
Harry K. Thomas, Jr. |
Bangladesh |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2003 |
Roland W. Bullen |
Guyana |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2004 |
Margarita Ragsdale |
Djibouti |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2004 |
June Carter Perry |
Lesotho |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2004 |
Joyce A. Barr |
Namibia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2004 |
James D. McGee |
Madagascar |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2004 |
Jendayi E. Frazer |
South Africa |
Not Applicable |
| 2005 |
Pamela E. Bridgewater |
Ghana |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2005 |
Roger D. Pierce |
Cape Verde |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2006 |
Bernadette Allen* |
Niger |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2006 |
Eric M. Bost |
South Africa |
Not Applicable |
| 2006 |
Gayleatha B. Brown |
Benin |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2006 |
Cindy L. Courville |
African Union |
Not Applicable |
| 2006 |
Clyde Bishop |
Marshall Islands |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2007 |
Wanda L. Nesbitt |
Cote d’Ivoire |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2007 |
Maurice S. Parker |
Swaziland |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2007 |
June Carter Perry |
Sierra Leone |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2007 |
John L. Withers |
Albania |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2007 |
Gail Denise Mathieu |
Namibia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2007 |
James D. McGee |
Zimbabwe |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2007 |
Eunice S. Reddick |
Republic of Gabon, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2007 |
Robin R. Sanders |
Nigeria |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2007 |
Barry L. Wells |
The Gambia |
Career Civil Service Officer |
| 2008 |
Marcia S. Bernicat |
Senegal and Guinea Bissau |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2008 |
John Jones |
Guyana |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2008 |
Linda Thomas-Greenfield |
Liberia |
Career Foreign Service Officer |
| 2008 |
C. Steven McGann |
The Fiji Republics |
Not Applicable |