The President today announced his intention to nominate Linda M. Combs to be Deputy Under Secretary for Management, Department of Education. She would succeed Charles L. Heatherly.
Mrs. Combs is currently Executive Secretary at the Department of Education. Previously, she was Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of Education (1982); manager for national director, student loan operations, Wachovia Educational Services, Inc. (1980-1982); and was a schoolteacher in Winston-Salem County, NC (1968-1979).
Mrs. Combs graduated from Appalachian State University (B.S., 1968; M.A., 1978). She is married and resides in Arlington, VA. She was born June 29, 1946, in Lenoir, NC.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Linda M. Combs To Be a Deputy Under Secretary of Education Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/261070