The President today announced his intention to nominate Susan E. Phillips to be Director of the Institute of Museum Services, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities. She would succeed Lilla Burr Cummings Tower.
Since 1982 Miss Phillips has been serving as Director of Intergovernmental and Interagency Services at the Department of Education. Previously she was expert consultant, grants and contracts, Department of Education, in 1982. She served as director of research and publications for the Conservative Caucus and the Conservative Caucus Research in 1976-1982.
She graduated from the University of Massachusetts (B.A., 1967). Miss Phillips was born June 23, 1945, in Cambridge, Mass., and currently resides in McLean, Va.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Susan E. Phillips To Be Director of the Institute of Museum Services Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/245994