Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the International Civil Aviation Organization
Seal of the Department of State
Incumbent Anthony Clarke as charge d'affaires since August 2024
United States Department of State
Style	His Excellency (diplomatic)
Reports to	President of the United States United States Secretary of State
Seat	ICAO Headquarters Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Appointer	President of the United States with Senate advice and consent
Term length	No fixed term At the pleasure of the President of the United States
Formation	September 22, 1947; 76 years ago (1947-09-22)
First holder	Laurence S. Kuter
Website	icao.usmission.gov

The United States Permanent Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization is the leader of the U.S. Mission to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The position is formally known as the permanent representative of the United States of America, with the rank and status of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. The position is but one of the United States' representatives to the United Nations and its other constituent agencies. The U.S. nominee to the Air Navigation Commission, a body that works towards the uniformity in regulations, standards and procedures which will facilitate and improve air navigation to international standards, acts as the deputy to the Permanent Representative.

The United States sent a delegation to the 1944 Chicago Conference, and became a party of the Convention on International Civil Aviation which was resolved at its end on 7 December 1944. The United States first sent a permanent representative to serve on the Council of the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization (PICAO) which began operating on 6 June 1945 and was replaced by ICAO on 7 April 1947. Air Force General Laurence S. Kuter was appointed the first representative to ICAO by presidential order in September 1946, and fully appointed in September 1947.

Status   Denotes Acting   Denotes Recess Appointment

The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:

#	Portrait	Ambassador	Years Served	Notes
1		Laurence S. Kuter	September 22, 1947 – February 29, 1948	[1]
2		Paul Albert Smith	September 24, 1948 – August 1, 1953 Recess appointment, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 13, 1949	[1][2]
3		Harold Armstrong Jones	July 22, 1953 – November 15, 1956	[1]
4		Nelson Binkley David	August 7, 1957 – August 31, 1968	[1]
5		Robert Patrick Boyle	August 9, 1968 – May 23, 1969	[1]
6		Charles Frederick Butler	May 2, 1969 – November 13, 1971	[1]
7		Betty Rose Dillon	November 8, 1971 – October 12, 1977	[1][3]
8		John Edward Downs	October 12, 1977 – October 26, 1982	[1]
9		Edmund Stohr	September 15, 1982 – April 20, 1990	[1]
10		Don M. Newman	June 27, 1990 – May 8, 1994	[4][1]
11		Carol Jones Carmody	April 9, 1994 – February 27, 1999	[1]
12		Edward W. Stimpson	October 5, 1999 – December 17, 2004	[1][5]
13		Donald T. Bliss	February 17, 2005 – January 19, 2009	[1][6][7][8]
14		Duane Woerth	October 1, 2010 – December 23, 2013	[1][9][10]
15		Michael Anderson Lawson	July 22, 2014 – January 19, 2017	[1][11]
16		Thomas L. Carter	December 10, 2017 – February 28, 2020	[1][12][13]
—		Sean E. Doocey (acting)	April 17, 2020 – January 17, 2021	[1]
17		Sully Sullenberger	February 3, 2022 – July 1, 2022[14]	[15][16][17]
—		Brent Christensen (acting)	August 2022 – January 2024	[18]
—		Andrew M. Veprek (acting)	January 2024 – August 2024	[19]

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