{{Short description|American diplomat}} {{Other people|James Holmes}} {{More footnotes needed|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = James Howard Holmes | image = Ambassador James Holmes.jpg | office = [[United States Ambassador to Latvia]] | president = [[Bill Clinton]]<br>[[George W. Bush]] | term_start = August 4, 1998 | term_end = September 15, 2001 | predecessor = [[Larry C. Napper]] | successor = [[Brian E. Carlson]] | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1943}} | birth_place = [[Springfield, Virginia]] | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | alma_mater = [[Colgate University]] }} '''James Howard Holmes''' (born April 1, 1943, Springfield, Virginia)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://1997-2001.state.gov/about_state/biography/holmes_james.html|title=Biography: James Howard Holmes|website=1997-2001.state.gov|access-date=2019-05-20}}</ref> is an American diplomat. He is the second son of the Rev. Robert Usher and Bertha Jeannette Cook Holmes. He is a 1965 graduate of [[Colgate University]], as well as, a graduate of [[Johns Hopkins University]] [[School of Advanced International Studies]], and the [[National War College]]. He joined the [[United States Foreign Service|Foreign Service]] in 1967 and has served overseas in [[Pakistan]], [[New Zealand]], [[Norway]], and [[Latvia]]. He is married and has two daughters and five grandchildren.
==Foreign Service Career==
*1984-1988 Director of the Office of Strategic Nuclear Policy in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. *1988-1992 Deputy Director of the Department of State's Policy Planning Staff with responsibilities for European policy. *1992-1995 Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in [[Ankara]], [[Turkey]]. *1995-1998 President's Coordinator for Assistance to Central and Eastern Europe responsible for assistance programs to fourteen Central European states, including start-up of the economic and reconstruction programs in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]] and [[Croatia]]. *1998-2001 U.S. Ambassador to [[Latvia]]. *2002–present Special Advisor for Southeast Europe in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the [[Department of State]]. *2004-2014 President of the [[American-Turkish Council]].
==References== {{Reflist}} *Lillian Dillenbeck Tallman, editor. The Dallenbachs in America, 1935-1979. Mohawk Valley Printing Company, Herkimer, New York, 1979. pp. 36, 46.
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060922205030/http://skopje.usembassy.gov/ambassador_holmes.html State Department profile]
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