Holm, Jeanne M(arjorie)
HOLM, Jeanne M(arjorie)
HOLM, Jeanne M(arjorie). American, b. 1921. Genres: Women's studies and issues, Military/Defense/Arms control. Career: U.S. Air Force, career officer, 1942-45, commander of a Women's Army Corps basic training company, commander of a training regiment at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., wing war plans officer at Erding Air Depot in Germany, personnel staff officer at Air Force Headquarters in the Pentagon, chief of manpower at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Air Headquarters in Naples, Italy, 1957-61, manpower staff officer in Directorate of Manpower and Organization at the Pentagon, 1961-65, director of Women in the Air Force, 1965-73, director of Air Force Personnel Council, 1973-75, retired as major general; special assistant to President Gerald Ford, 1976-77; writer and public speaker, 1977-. Trustees Air Force Aid Society, 1988-96; member of boards of United Service Organizations International and National Defense University Foundation, 1982-89; member of advisory committees of Veterans Administration, Coast Guard Academy, and United Services Life Insurance Co. Director of Pentagon Federal Credit Union, 1973-75; consultant to Defense Manpower Commission and Under Secretary of the Air Force. Director of national boards of Camp Fire Girls, Inc., 1969-75. Publications: Womeninthe Military: An Unfinished Revolution, 1982, rev. ed., 1992; In Defense of a Nation: Servicewomen in World War II, 1998. Address: 2707 Thyme Rd, Edgewater, MD 21037, U.S.A.