Jerry P. Lanier

Jerry Lanier
United States Ambassador to Sudan
Acting
In office
May 13, 2014  February 26, 2016
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded byJoseph Stafford (Acting)
Succeeded bySteven Koutsis (Acting)
Coordinator for Counterterrorism
Acting
In office
December 12, 2012  February 18, 2014
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byDaniel Benjamin
Succeeded byTina Kaidanow
United States Ambassador to Uganda
In office
January 24, 2010  June 11, 2012
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded bySteven A. Browning
Succeeded byScott H. DeLisi
Personal details
Born(1952-01-19)January 19, 1952
Chadbourn, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedAugust 16, 2022(2022-08-16) (aged 70)
Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina, Pembroke
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jerry P. Lanier (January 19, 1952 – August 16, 2022) He was a career diplomat with the Department of State. Lanier was a former acting U.S. Ambassador to Sudan. He was in this position from May 13, 2014 to February 26, 2016. He was the Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism in the Bureau of Counterterrorism, at the Department of State from December 2012 to February 2014. He was a former Ambassador from the United States of America to the Republic of Uganda.