Akron Roundtable: Lynne Tracy

Date and Time

• Thursday, Mar 19, 2026  12pm

Location

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Lynne M. Tracy is a retired U.S. Department of State senior Foreign Service Officer with 31 years of diplomatic experience. She was Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2023-2025) and Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia (2019-2022).

Prior to that, she served as Senior Advisor for Russian Affairs in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, 2017-2018 and was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia, 2014-2017. Her other leadership positions include Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, 2012-2014, and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 2010-2011. She was Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, 2006-2009 and Principal Officer at the U.S. Embassy Branch Office in Astana, Kazakhstan, 2004-2006. Other overseas assignments include a tour in Kabul, Afghanistan (2002-2003).

Ms. Tracy is the recipient of a Presidential Rank Distinguished Service Award (2024), the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award (2017), and the Secretary of State’s Award for Heroism (2009).

She earned a B.A. in Soviet Studies from the University of Georgia (1986) and a J.D. from the University of Akron (1994). Ms. Tracy was born and grew up in Barberton, Ohio.