The President today announced his intention to nominate Janet J. McCoy to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Territorial and International Affairs). She would succeed Richard Thomas Montoya.
From 1981 to 1987, Mrs. McCoy was High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands at the Department of the Interior. Prior to her retirement in 1987, she was involved in handling press relations for local and national political campaigns.
Mrs. McCoy attended Wayne State University, 1934-1936. She was born July 13, 1916, in Saginaw, MI. She is married, has two children, and currently resides in Scottsburg, OR.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Janet J. McCoy To Be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/253894