The President today announced his intention to nominate Karen R. Keesling to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs). She would succeed Tidal W. McCoy.
Since 1987 Ms. Keesling has been Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Readiness Support at the Department of the Air Force in Washington, DC. Prior to this, she was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Installations, 1983-1987; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower Resources and Military Personnel, 1982-1983; and Deputy for Equal Opportunity and Director of Equal Employment Opportunity, 1981-1982. From 1979 to 1981, she was a legislative aide to Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum.
Ms. Keesling graduated from Arizona State University (B.A., 1968; M.A., 1970) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1981). She was born July 9, 1946, in Wichita, KS, and currently resides in Falls Church, VA.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Karen R. Keesling To Be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/255649