The President today announced his intention to nominate Wendy Monson DeMocker to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation (Public Affairs). She would succeed Dale A. Petroskey.
Since 1987 Mrs. DeMocker has been Press Secretary to the Secretary at the Department of Transportation in Washington, DC, and Director of Public Affairs for the Federal Railroad Administration at the Department of Transportation, 1983-1987. Prior to this she was assistant press secretary to Senator David Durenberger, 1980-1983.
Mrs. DeMocker graduated from the University of Minnesota (B.A., 1979). She was born October 4, 1957, in Virginia, MN. She is married and resides in Oakton, VA.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Wendy Monson DeMocker 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/254485