Brenda Brown Schoonover (born 1939)[1] was the United States Ambassador to Togo, from January 1998 to July 2000.

She began her overseas service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1961 in the Philippines with the first groups to go abroad.

In the 1970s, Schoonover worked for two years as Arlington County of Virginia's affirmative action officer.

Schoonover has been with the Department of State for 21 years in a variety of administrative positions in the Philippines; Sri Lanka; Tunisia; and in the Bureau of Near East and South Asian Affairs.

Ambassador Schoonover was a Diplomat in Residence at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 2000 to 2001.