Jeffrey J. Hawkins (born 1966) is an academic and former American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic from 2015 to 2017.

[3] From 2004 to 2006, Hawkins was posted to Brunei as deputy chief of mission in Bandar Seri Begawan, then he was sent to the embassy in Lille, France, as the consul.

[4] In 2012, Hawkins was sent to be consul general in Lagos, Nigeria where he remained until his nomination for the ambassadorship to the Central African Republic by President Obama on April 16, 2015.

[5] Hawkins retired from the Foreign Service in 2017, leaving his post as ambassador in September and being succeeded by David P. Brownstein as charge d'affairs at the consulate.

After his retirement from the Foreign Service in September 2017, Hawkins took up the post of director at the American Library in Paris, succeeding Charles Trueheart.