Marie T. Huhtala (born 1949) is an American Career Foreign Service Officer who was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Malaysia (2001–2004).

[4] Malaysia, unlike regional neighbors Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, did not support the US vis-a-vis Iraq.

[5] Huhtala ran as an independent for the Hunter Mill seat on the Board of Supervisors in Fairfax County, Virginia, 2007.

Huhtala received an undergraduate degree in French from Santa Clara University in California, a master's degree in political science from Laval University, Quebec and is a 1988 graduate of the National War College.

From 1995 to 1996 she was a member of the Senior Seminar, an interagency executive development program organized by the State Department's National Foreign Affairs Training Center.