The President today announced his intention to appoint John A. Montgomery to be a member of the President's Cancer Panel for a term expiring February 20, 1986. He will succeed Harold Amos.
Since 1981 Dr. Montgomery has been serving as senior vice president and director of Kettering-Meyer Laboratory at the Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Ala. He joined the Southern Research Institute in 1956 as director of organic chemistry and became vice president in 1974.
Dr. Montgomery graduated from Vanderbilt University (A.B., 1947) and the University of North Carolina (M.D., 1951). He is married, has four children, and resides in Birmingham, Ala. He was born March 29, 1924, in Greenville, Miss.
Ronald Reagan, Appointment of John A. Montgomery as a Member of the President's Cancer Panel Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/262005