The President today announced his intention to nominate Dorcas R. Hardy to be Commissioner of Social Security, Department of Health and Human Services. She would succeed John A. Svahn.
Ms. Hardy has been serving as Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services at the Department of Health and Human Services since 1981. Previously she was associate director of the Center for Health Services at the University of Southern California in 1974-1981. Since 1983 she also has been serving as the Chairman of the President's Task Force on Legal Equity for Women.
Ms. Hardy graduated from Connecticut College (B.A., 1968) and Pepperdine University (M.B.A., 1976). She was born July 18, 1946, in Newark, NJ, and now resides in Arlington, VA.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Dorcas R. Hardy To Be Commissioner of Social Security Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/258662