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