Carol Lee van Voorst (born 1952) is an American diplomat who served as the former United States Ambassador to Iceland.

[2] Her 1978 Ph.D. thesis was entitled The Anglican clergy in Maryland, 1692-1776, and was published as one of the Outstanding Studies in Early American History.

Before she joined the Foreign Service, van Voorst was an American history teacher at the City University of New York.

While she was Ambassador, the United States, which had provided Iceland with its only military force since 1951, announced that it would withdraw most of its service members and all of its fighter jets and helicopters.

[7] Ambassador van Voorst successfully negotiated the closure of the American airbase at Keflavik and a follow-on mutual defense agreement with the Icelandic government.