The President today announced his intention to nominate Glen A. Holden to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Jamaica. He would succeed Michael Sotirhos.
Since 1973 Mr. Holden has been the chairman, chief executive officer, and president of the Holden Group in Los Angeles, CA. From 1968 to 1973, he was president and director of the Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co. in Houston, TX. He was a general agent with Glen Holden Associates in Portland, OR, from 1956 to 1964, and an agent and agency supervisor with John C.F. Merrifield and Associates, 1951 - 1956.
Mr. Holden graduated from the University of Oregon (B.S., 1951). He was honorably discharged from the Navy in January 1946. Mr. Holden was born July 2, 1927, in Boise, ID. He is married, has three children, and resides in Los Angeles, CA.
George Bush, Nomination of Glen A. Holden To Be United States Ambassador to Jamaica Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/262848