Nomination of Janet J. McCoy To Be High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

The President today announced his intention to nominate Janet J. McCoy to be High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. She would succeed Adrian P. Winkel.

Mrs. McCoy is currently retired and was director of the Reagan for President press office in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1976 and 1980. She has been extensively involved in California politics and has held press office positions in the Reagan for Governor campaign in 1966, Rockefeller for President in 1964, and Nixon for Governor in 1962.

In 1970-73 she was executive director of the Western American Convention & Travel Institute. Mrs. McCoy was director of the Office of Tourism and Visitor Services, State of California, in 1967-70.

Mrs. McCoy attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. She is married, has two grown children, and resides in Scottsburg, Oreg. She was born July 13, 1916, in Saginaw, Mich.