Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. has appointed eight new board members to fill vacancies on the Utah Board of Business and Economic Development.

The new board members are: Bill Boyle, publisher and editor of the San Juan Record in Monticello; Jack Brittain, dean of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah; Mary D. Draper, development officer of the Utah Museum of Natural History and director of the Robert W. and Barbara J. Keener Foundation; Molonai Hola, owner and president of Icon Corp., a defense contracting company; Mel S. Lavitt, vice chairman and managing director of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, a company that funds and advises growth companies; Richard R. Nelson, president and chief executive officer of the Utah Information Technology Association; Amy Rees Lewis, owner and director of Globerian, a company located in Delhi, India, that provides offshore business process outsourcing to U.S.-based businesses, and chief executive of Mediconnect, an online medical record retrieval company; and Gerald R. Sherratt, mayor of Cedar City and president emeritus of Southern Utah University.

The new appointments have been confirmed by the Utah Senate.

The 15-member board also includes David Simmons, Joel A. Bradford, Dell Loy Hansen, Mark D. Howell, Jerry Oldroyd, Debra Tanzi and Clifford White.

On July 1, the board will change from a policy to an advisory board.