Nomination of Terence A. Todman To Be United States Ambassador to Denmark

The President today announced his intention to nominate Terence A. Todman, a career Foreign Service officer, to be Ambassador to Denmark. He would succeed Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr.

Mr. Todman is currently serving as Ambassador to Spain. He has served in that position since 1978. He entered the Foreign Service in 1952 as an international relations officer at the Department of State, a position he held until 1957. He then served as a political officer in New Delhi from 1957-1960. He was in Arabic language training in Beirut from 1960-1961. From 1961 to 1964, he served as a political officer in Tunisia. He then went to Togo as Deputy Chief of Mission (1965-1968). At the Department of State, he served as Country Director for Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Seychelles, in the Bureau of African Affairs (1968-1969). In 1969 he became a Chief of Mission for the first time, when he was appointed Ambassador to Chad (1969-1972). He then served as Ambassador to Guinea (1972-1974) and Ambassador to Costa Rica (1975-1977). He then returned to the Department of State to become Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs (1977-1978).

Ambassador Todman graduated from the Inter-American University in Puerto Rico (B.A., 1951) and Syracuse University (M.A., 1952). He is married and has four children. He was born March 13, 1926, in the Virgin Islands.