Victoria Anne Kennedy (née Reggie; born February 26, 1954)[1] is an American diplomat, attorney, and activist who served as the United States Ambassador to Austria from 2022 to 2025.

Her father, Edmund Reggie, was a Louisiana judge and banker, and her mother, Doris Ann Boustany, was a Democratic National committeewoman.

[4] Reggie's grandparents became important members of the local Roman Catholic church, and later their children became involved in business and politics.

At the 1956 Democratic National Convention, her father helped deliver his state for John F. Kennedy's unsuccessful bid for the vice-presidential nomination.

[5] She then received her Juris Doctor degree, summa cum laude in 1979 from Tulane University Law School.

[9][10] After law school, Reggie clerked for Judge Robert Arthur Sprecher at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago.

Some Democratic officials hoped she would agree to run for Senate to finish out her husband's term, but she declined again and instead endorsed Martha Coakley for the special election to fill the vacant seat.

In mid-June, the office of Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen had confirmed the required "agreement" for Kennedy's appointment was issued.

[28][29] She met her first husband, Grier C. Raclin, a telecommunications attorney[4] (who later became a senior executive at Charter Communications in St. Louis, Missouri),[30] when they clerked together at the Everett McKinley Dirksen Federal Courthouse.

[3][4] She was made partner there, and was known to be "charismatic and hard-driving" and a tough negotiator in settlement talks[4] and "as a real star" for her ability to work on complicated financial transactions.

[3] Kennedy and Reggie began dating in June 1991[32] after meeting at a party celebrating her parents' 40th wedding anniversary.

[3][6] In Ted Kennedy's 1994 senatorial re-election campaign against moderate Republican Mitt Romney, she was credited by The New York Times with "giving him a political advantage in a difficult contest.