Richard Carlton Paschall III is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to the Gambia from 2019 to 2022.

[1] Paschall is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor.

He served in leadership positions in the Bureau of African Affairs at the State Department, at the U.S. Embassies in Iraq and Chad, and as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander of the Special Operations Command-Africa.

[1] On August 16, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Paschall to be the next United States Ambassador to the Gambia.

[3] Paschall arrived in The Gambia on March 14, 2019,[4] and presented his credentials to President Adama Barrow on April 9, 2019.