Harriet Winsar Isom
Harriet Winsar Isom is an American retired diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer. She served as the Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Laos and Ambassador to Benin and Cameroon,
Isom was born in Heppner, Oregon on November 4, 1936. She graduated from Mills College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
During Isom's tenure in Laos, an agreement was reached regarding US aide to Laos and Laos looking for Americans who had been missing since the Vietnam War.