Heather M. Hodges

Heather Mary Hodges
Heather Mary Hodges, U.S. Ambassador
United States Ambassador to Ecuador
In office October 2, 2008 – April 5, 2011
President	George W. Bush Barack Obama
Preceded by	Linda Jewell
Succeeded by	Adam Namm
United States Ambassador to Moldova
In office September 12, 2003 – May 2006
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Pamela Hyde Smith
Succeeded by	Michael D. Kirby
Personal details
Born	1946 (age 70–71) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	College of St. Catherine
Profession	diplomat

Heather Mary Hodges (born 1946) is a career United States foreign service officer. She has been the United States Ambassador to Moldova and the United States Ambassador to Ecuador.

Hodges is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. She has a B.A. in Spanish from the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota, and an M.A. from New York University. She lived and worked in Madrid, Spain, throughout the 1970s.

Hodges joined the Foreign Service in 1980 and was assigned to Caracas, Venezuela. Following Caracas, she served in Guatemala and later in Washington as Peru Desk Officer. In 1987, Ms. Hodges received a Pearson Fellowship to work in the U.S. Congress, where she was counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs. In January 1989, she became Consul General at the U.S. Consulate in Bilbao, Spain. In 1991, she returned to the U.S. to serve as Deputy Director of the Office of Cuban Affairs.

In 1993, Hodges was assigned to Managua, Nicaragua, as Deputy Chief of Mission. From August 1996 to June 1997, Hodges participated in the Department of State's Senior Seminar, a leadership program for select members of the Foreign Service. She served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Lima, Peru, from July 1997 to May 2000 and was also Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain, from June 2000 to July 2003.

She served as U.S. Ambassador to Moldova from September 2003 to May 2006. She was then appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of the Director General.

She was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador on July 15, 2008, arrived in Ecuador in early August, and presented her credentials to President Rafael Correa on October 2, 2008.