American women ambassadors

Caroline Clendening Laise (November 14, 1917 – July 25, 1991) was an American civil servant, ambassador to Nepal and the first female Assistant Secretary of State.

Evelyn Irene Hoopes Teegan (born November 17, 1931, Muscatine County, Iowa) was a non-career appointee who served concurrent appointments as the American Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, and Tonga from November 21, 1989, to March 5, 1993.
A housewife from Edina, Minnesota, Teegan had served as a Republican National Committeewoman. She was Vice President of Teegan and Associates in Minneapolis since 1987. She graduated from Iowa State University in 1953.