Deborah Ruth Malac (born 1955)[1] is an American diplomat, who served as the United States Ambassador to Uganda.

She later studied at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (now Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy) and received an M.S.

[4] Malac spent a year studying international law at the University of Basel on a Fulbright Foundation fellowship.

In 2014, a major Ebola outbreak started there, and Malac helped coordinate the U.S. response to the medical and humanitarian crisis.

[11] When elections took place shortly after her arrival, the government of Uganda issued statements critical of Malac for her admonition not to sacrifice democratic processes in the country for the sake of security.