Jim Glickman was born in Chicago in 1953 and graduated from the University of Michigan where he met his wife Marlene who he married in 1976 and who gave him three children.
After a period spent in Detroit, the couple moved to California where they raised their three children before moving permanently to Las Vegas.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the LifeCare Assurance Company of which he was co-founder in 1988, he was Vice-President of the SOA for several years.
Passionate and talented player has been part of a couple of occasions of teams that have represented the United States and participate with some regularity in the American Championships.