Helen Reed-Rowe (born 1949), a career diplomat of the Senior Foreign Service, served as the first resident United States Ambassador to Palau.

She graduated from Edmondson High School with honors and earned a BA from University of Maryland, Eastern Shore.

She served in managerial capacities in Niger, Ecuador and Jamaica, and as Deputy Chief of Mission in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

As a Pearson Fellow, Reed-Rowe served a one-year assignment in the congressional office of Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX).

In 2008, Reed-Rowe earned a master's degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

Reed-Rowe then joined the United States Army War College as a member of the Command team which focuses on the development of the next generation of military, interagency and international leaders.