Gary Faye Locke is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 10th United States ambassador to China. He was previously the 21st governor of Washington and served in the Obama administration as United States Secretary of Commerce.
Locke is the first governor in the continental United States of East Asian descent and the only Chinese American ever to have served as a governor of any state. He was also the first Chinese American to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China.