The President today announced his intention to nominate Jerry D. Blakemore to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor (Public and Intergovernmental Affairs). He would succeed David F. Demarest.
Since 1987 Mr. Blakemore has been the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs at the Department of Labor. Prior to this, he served in several capacities for Illinois Governor James R. Thompson: Deputy Governor and legal counsel, 1985-1987; counselor and director of the Office of Citizens' Assistance and Consumer Affairs, 1983; and assistant for health and human services, 1980.
Mr. Blakemore graduated from Princeton University (B.A., 1976) and John Marshall Law School (I.D., 1980). He was born July 22, 1954, in Chicago, IL, and resides in Washington, DC.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Jerry D. Blakemore To Be an Assistant Secretary of Labor Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/253539