Brenda Brown Schoonover (born 1939) was the United States Ambassador to Togo, from January 1998 to July 2000. Schoonover was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, and did graduate studies at Howard University, Washington, D.C. She is fluent in French; and is married to Richard C. Schoonover, a former Foreign Service officer retired from the former United States Information Agency (now known as the Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs section of the State Department).