general of the United States Foreign Service and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, SPA/BA '38 Nizar Bin Obaid Madani – Deputy Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, SIS/MA '71, SIS/PhD '77 Jean Elizabeth Manes - current Civilian Deputy and Foreign Policy Advisor to General Laura J. Richardson, former United States Ambassador to El Salvador, SPA/MPA '96 Francis E. Meloy, Jr. – United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Lebanon; assassinated in Beirut in 1976 Connie Morella – United States Ambassador to the OECD, former US Representative, Professor Hamline University Vincent Obsitnik – United States Ambassador to Slovakia; Business Executive at IBM, Unisys and Litton, KSB/MBA Charles Pergler – Ambassador of Czechoslovakia to the United States and Japan, WCL/LLM John Peurifoy – United States Ambassador to Greece, Thailand and Guatemala Khadija al-Salami – Press and Cultural attaché and director of the Yemeni Information Centre at the Embassy of Yemen in Paris; first female Yemeni film producer, SOC '90 Omar Samad – Ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada, former CNN analyst Saeed Mohammed Al Shamsi – Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Germany, Australia, India and New Zealand, SIS/PhD Kantathi Suphamongkhon – Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, former Thai Member of Parliament, SIS/MA Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani – State of Qatar Ambassador to the United States of America Lawrence Palmer Taylor – United States Ambassador to Estonia, MA Esteban Edward Torres – Ambassador to UNESCO; United States Representative from California, '66 Richard Verma – United States Ambassador to India Richard Noyes Viets – United States Ambassador to Tanzania and Jordan Marilyn Ware – United States Ambassador to Finland Dessima Williams – Ambassador of Grenada to the United Nations, PhD Curtin Winsor, Jr. – United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, SIS/MA '64, SIS/PhD'71 United States Senators and Representatives Ken Bentsen, Jr. – United States Representative from Texas, SPA/MPA '85 James Bilbray – United States Representative from Nevada; Nevada State Senator, CAS/BA '62, WCL/JD '65 Don Bonker – United States Representative from Washington, MA Dave Brat – United States Representative from Virginia, Chair of the Economics Department of Randolph–Macon College, CAS/PhD '95 Julia Brownley – United States Representative from California, MBA '79 Robert Byrd – United States Senator from West Virginia, WCL '63 Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. – United States Representative from South Carolina, Governor of South Carolina, SPA/MA '85 Thomas Downey – United States