List of ambassadors of the United States to the Gambia

This is a list of United States ambassadors to the Gambia, the first of who was appointed on May 18, 1965, exactly three months after it attained independence from the United Kingdom.

Ambassador of the United States to the Gambia
Seal of the United States Department of State
Flag of a United States ambassador
Incumbent Sharon L. Cromer since March 18, 2022
Nominator	The president of the United States
Appointer	The president with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder	Mercer Cook as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Formation	May 18, 1965
Website	U.S. Embassy - Banjul

Ambassadors

Name	Title	Appointed	Presented credentials	Terminated mission	Notes
Mercer Cook[1][a] - Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 18, 1965	August 9, 1965	July 1, 1966
William R. Rivkin[a] - Non-career appointee		October 13, 1966	January 16, 1967	March 19, 1967	Died in office
L. Dean Brown[a] - Career FSO		October 18, 1967	January 18, 1968	August 15, 1970
G. Edward Clark[a] - Career FSO		October 12, 1970	November 24, 1970	October 16, 1973
O. Rudolph Aggrey[a] - Career FSO		November 23, 1973	January 17, 1974	July 10, 1977
Herman J. Cohen[a] - Career FSO		June 24, 1977	March 29, 1978	July 21, 1980
Larry Gordon Piper - Career FSO		June 30, 1980	August 21, 1980	August 23, 1982
Owen W. Roberts	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	August 23, 1982		June 1983
P. Wesley Kriebel		July 1983		November 1983
Alan Logan		November 1983		April 1984
Edward Brynn		May 1984		June 20, 1984
Robert Thomas Hennemeyer - Career FSO	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 11, 1984	June 20, 1984	June 27, 1986
Herbert E. Horowitz - Career FSO		September 12, 1986	October 24, 1986	November 4, 1989
Jimmie Stone	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	November 4, 1989		January 1990
A. Donald Bramante		January 1990		December 31, 1990
Arlene Render - Career FSO	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 22, 1990	December 31, 1990	August 8, 1993
Andrew J. Winter - Career FSO		July 11, 1993	October 29, 1993	May 31, 1995
Gerald W. Scott - Career FSO		December 28, 1995	February 16, 1996	June 27, 1998
George Williford Boyce Haley - Political appointee		June 29, 1998	October 15, 1998	July 14, 2001
Jackson McDonald - Career FSO		October 1, 2001	November 29, 2001	May 26, 2004
Joseph D. Stafford III - Career FSO		July 2, 2004	September 15, 2004	June 5, 2007
Barry L. Wells - Political appointee		October 29, 2007	February 13, 2008	May 13, 2009
Pamela Ann White – Career FSO		October 1, 2010	November 29, 2010	June 2, 2012
Edward M. Alford – Career FSO		July 5, 2012	November 5, 2012	July 28, 2013
Patricia Alsup – Career FSO		October 15, 2015	January 13, 2016	September 18, 2018
Richard Carlton Paschall III - Career FSO[2]		January 2, 2019	April 9, 2019[3]	February 15, 2022
Sharon L. Cromer – Career FSO		December 18, 2021	March 18, 2022	present