She was appointed United States Envoy to the Pacific Islands Forum in March 2023.

[3] From 2011 to 2015 she was the United States Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu.

[5] Reed was deputy chief of mission in Apia, Samoa, from 1999 to 2002, and then in Conakry, Guinea from 2003 to 2005.

From 2005 to 2008 she was consul general and deputy U.S. observer to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

She has also been deputy director in the Office of Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island Affairs,[clarification needed] political section chief in Dakar, Senegal and a political officer in Nairobi, Kenya and in Yaounde, Cameroon.Frankie A. Reed arrived in Melbourne in March 2015 to assume the position of Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General Melbourne.