Nomination of Bradley Paul Holmes To Be Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy at the Department of State

The President today announced his intention to nominate Bradley Paul Holmes to be Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy at the Department of State, with the rank of Ambassador. He would succeed Sonia Landau.

Since 1986 Mr. Holmes has served as chief of the policy and rules division in the mass media bureau at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC. Prior to this, he served as legal adviser for Commissioner Dennis R. Patrick at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC, 1984 - 1986; associate with the law firm of Scadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in New York, 1981 - 1984; law clerk for the Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1979 - 1981; and an associate with Windels, Marx, Davies and Ives in New York, 1978 - 1979.

Mr. Holmes graduated from Dartmouth College (B.A., 1975) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1978). He was born September 14, 1953, in Boston, MA. Mr. Holmes resides in Falls Church, VA.