K. David Holmes, Jr.
Assistant Administrator for Inspection
K. David Holmes, Jr. rejoined TSA in October 2005 as assistant administrator for Inspection. He first headed the office from February 2002 to September 2004.
Starting as the appointed under secretary for Inspection by Secretary Norman Y. Mineta when TSA was part of the Department of Transportation, he became assistant administrator for Inspection when TSA transferred to the Department of Homeland Security in March 2003. Holmes worked in the private sector from September 2004 to October 2005.
He also was the Department of Commerce's deputy assistant secretary for Security.
Holmes was in the U.S. Secret Service from 1974 until 1998. Sworn in as a special agent, he was promoted to the senior executive service in 1993. He then served as assistant director in the Secret Service's Office of Training and later in the Office of Inspection. He retired from the Secret Service as the assistant director for the Office of Inspection.
Other career and supervisory assignments included duty in the Bogota Colombia Task Force, the Miami Field Office, the Office of Training, the San Juan and Puerto Rico field offices, the Presidential Protection Division, and the Vice-Presidential Protection Division.
Holmes also served four years in the U.S. Army, until 1974.
He received the Presidential Meritorious Service Award in 2001 and numerous other awards throughout his dedicated career with the Secret Service and the Department of Commerce.
Holmes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in Hispanic studies from the University of Puerto Rico. In 1974, he pursued graduate work in human relations at the Canal Zone Branch of the University of Oklahoma.
