Kara McDonald

McDonald is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. She has served as U.S. Consul General in Strasbourg, deputy permanent observer to the Council of Europe, and deputy chief of mission in Chișinău, Moldova.^[3]

Other roles include director in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, deputy special coordinator for Haiti, and director for United Nations and International Operations at the National Security Council.

She was also a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and held overseas posts in Bucharest and Port-au-Prince. From 2021 to 2022, she served as the senior official to monitor and combat antisemitism^[1], and from 2020 to 2024, as deputy assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor.^[2]

On March 20, 2023, Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate McDonald to serve as the next United States ambassador to Lithuania. On March 21, 2023, her nomination was sent to the Senate.^[4] Hearings on her nomination were held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 21, 2023. The committee favorably reported her nomination on July 13, 2023. On November 29, 2023, her nomination was confirmed in the Senate by voice vote.^[5] She presented her credentials to President Gitanas Nausėda on January 26, 2024.^[6]

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