[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[July 22, 1992]
[Page 1162]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Genta Hawkins Holmes To Be Director General of the Foreign 
Service

July 22, 1992
    The President today announced his intention to nominate Genta 
Hawkins Holmes, of California, a career member of the Senior Foreign 
Service, class of Minister-Counselor, to be Director General of the 
Foreign Service. She would succeed Edward J. Perkins.
    Ambassador Holmes currently serves as U.S. Ambassador to Namibia, 
1990-present. She has also served as Deputy Chief of Mission in 
Pretoria, South Africa, 1988-89; Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, 1986-88; and 
Lilongwe, Malawi, 1984-86. Ambassador Holmes has also served at the 
State Department in several other positions, including international 
affairs officer at the Bureau of African Affairs, 1983; participant in 
the Senior Seminar at the State Department, 1982; and at the Agency for 
International Development as Assistant Administrator for Legislative 
Affairs and as Acting Administrator, 1979-81.
    Ambassador Holmes graduated from the University of Southern 
California (A.B., 1962). She was born September 3, 1940, in Anadarko, 
OK. Ambassador Holmes is married and currently resides in San Francisco, 
CA.