Geraldine Mack Joseph (June 19, 1923 – October 16, 2023) was an American journalist, academic, political figure, and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands.

[2] She graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota in 1946[3] and became a staff writer for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune where she worked until 1953.

In 1948, she worked as a speechwriter for Hubert H. Humphrey during his successful campaign for United States Senator.

[13] From 1983 to 1993, Ambassador Joseph was a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

[18][19] In 2003, Joseph Kordell was shot and killed at the Hennepin County Government Center by her cousin Susan Berkovitz, with whom she was involved in a property dispute.