Frankie A. Reed

Frankie A. Reed
United States Ambassador to Fiji
In office
October 13, 2011 – January 18, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byC. Steven McGann
Succeeded byJudith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Kiribati
In office
April 30, 2012 – January 18, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byC. Steven McGann
Succeeded byJudith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Nauru
In office
July 16, 2012 – January 18, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byC. Steven McGann
Succeeded byJudith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Tuvalu
In office
October 30, 2011 – January 18, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byC. Steven McGann
Succeeded byJudith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Tonga
In office
November 14, 2011 – January 18, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byC. Steven McGann
Succeeded byJudith Beth Cefkin
Personal details
BornFrancesca Annette Reed
1954 (age 71–72)
OccupationDiplomat

Frankie Annette Reed (born 1954, Baltimore) is an American diplomat. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. She was appointed United States Envoy to the Pacific Islands Forum in March 2023. She retired from the Department of State following an appointment as United States Consul-General in Melbourne. From 2011 to 2015 she was the United States Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu. She has a BA in journalism from Howard University and a doctorate in law from the University of California, Berkeley.

Before her appointment as ambassador, Reed was a deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, responsible for relations with Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. She was previously a lecturer and diplomat-in-residence at the University of California at Berkeley.