Advisory council submits UH regent candidates


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HONOLULU (AP) — A University of Hawaii advisory committee has forwarded the names of 15 people to fill four seats on the institution's Board of Regents, including a retired Hawaii Supreme Court associate justice.

Simeon Acoba Jr., who turned 70 this year and faced the mandatory retirement age for judges, will be considered for a Honolulu seat on the board by Gov. Neil Abercrombie, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (http://bit.ly/YYCs2G) reported.

Four regents — John Dean, Carl Carlson, Saedene Ota and Tom Shigemoto — resigned from the 15-member Regents Board when members were added to the list of public officials who must disclose financial interests to the public.

Acoba was a Circuit Court judge and an associate judge on the Intermediate Court of Appeals before he was named to the Supreme Court in 2000. He lectures at the university's William S. Richardson School of Law.

Others in the running for the final three years of Dean's term include Peter Adler, a planner and mediator; Maralyn Kurshals, a former Board of Education member; Michael McEnerney, an attorney and certified public accountant; and Russel Nagata, a former state comptroller and a Honolulu District Court judge.

The advisory council nominated four people for Carlson's Hawaii County seat: Wayne Higaki, chief development officer for North Hawaii Community Hospital; Peter Hoffman, former Hawaii County Council member and retired Army colonel; and Roy Vitousek III, an attorney. Carlson's term ran through June 2016.

Three people were nominated for the remaining year of Ota's Maui County seat: Sherrilee Dodson, director of Habitat for Humanity Maui; Anders Lyons, a business development consultant; and Helen Nielsen, field representative for U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz.

Shigemoto was appointed to serve from Kauai through June 2017. The nominees for the seat include David Iha, the former UH acting budget director and regents administrator; Dr. Dileep Bal, the state Health Department's district health officer for Kauai; and Klaus Keil, a retired professor and researcher who headed the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology.

Abercrombie's picks require confirmation by the state Senate.

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