The President today announced his intention to nominate C. Ronald Kimberling to be Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. He would succeed Edward M. Elmendorf.
Since 1982 Mr. Kimberling has been serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs at the Department of Education. Previously, he was Executive Secretary in the Office of the Secretary of Education in 1981-1982; director of enrollment services at the University of Southern California in 1978-1981; and assistant professor in the department of journalism at California State University at Northridge in 1975-1979.
He graduated from California State University at Northridge (B.A., 1972; M.A., 1977) and the University of Southern California (Ph.D., 1981). He is married and resides in Arlington, VA. He was born September 24, 1950, in Cleveland, OH.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of C. Ronald Kimberling To Be an Assistant Secretary of Education Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/257989