Sharon L. Cromer is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the Gambia since March 2022.

Cromer was born in Washington, D.C. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College and a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center.

She served as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission director at the U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana; she has had multiple positions here.

In Jakarta, Indonesia, Cromer was a supervisory contracting officer, and then the USAID deputy mission director, at the U.S. Embassy.

[3] On June 15, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Cromer to be the next United States Ambassador to The Gambia.