The President today announced his intention to nominate Phyllis P. Berney to be a member of the National Council on the Arts, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, for a term expiring September 3, 1990. She would succeed Norman B. Champ, Jr.
Mrs. Berney serves as a member of the Wisconsin Arts Board and is chairperson of the board's education and visual arts committees. She is also the outreach coordinator for the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foster Art Gallery. In 1979-1981 she was a member of the board of directors of the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony.
She attended Ohio State University and the University of Minnesota. She is married, has four children, and resides in Eau' Claire, WI. She was born June 29, 1935, in Richmond, VA.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Phyllis P. Berney To Be a Member of the National Council on the Arts Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/258047