The President today announced his intention to nominate Danny Lee McDonald to be a member of the Federal Election Commission for a term expiring April 30, 1987. He would succeed Robert Q. Tiernan.
Since 1979 Mr. McDonald has been general administrator, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, responsible for the management of 10 regulatory divisions. He was secretary of the Tulsa County Election Board in 1974-79 and a member of the Federal Elections Commission Advisory Panel to the Federal Election Commission Clearinghouse. Mr. McDonald was clerk chief, Tulsa County Election Board, in 1979.
He graduated from Oklahoma State University (B.A., 1971) and attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He resides in Oklahoma City, Okla. He was born August 26, 1946, in Tulsa, Okla.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Danny Lee McDonald To Be a Member of the Federal Election Commission Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247214