The President today announced his intention to nominate Mari Maseng to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation (Public Affairs). She would succeed Lee L. Verstandig.
Miss Maseng served as a speechwriter to the President at the White House in 1981-1983. Previously she was press aide to Mrs. Reagan, office of the President-elect, in 1980-1981 and special assistant to the chairman of the Reagan-Bush Committee in 1980. She was staff director for the Dole for President Committee in 1979-1980 and served as press secretary for Senator Strom Thurmond's reelection campaign in 1978. She was a reporter for the Charleston Evening Post in 1974-1978.
She received her bachelor of arts degree from the University of South Carolina in 1975. Miss Maseng was born March 15, 1954, in Chicago, Ill.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Mari Maseng To Be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/261892