Hatch defeated the current committeeman, former Congressman Bill Orton, as well as two other candidates, after Sen. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake, sent an e-mail to delegates saying Orton should be ousted for supporting McCoy's GOP state Senate opponent two years ago.

Arent won the committeewoman post over Billie Gay Larson, who ran unsuccessfully for Salt Lake County treasurer in 2006. The current committeewoman, Helen Langan, did not seek re-election.

Also picked by party members Friday and Saturday were 23 of 29 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, to be held in August in Denver, apportioned according to the results of the state's Feb. 5 Democratic presidential primary.

Fourteen are committed to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and nine to New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. Utah also has six so-called "superdelegates," party leaders who are free to vote for either candidate.

As expected, the final superdelegate named Friday, Kristi Cumming, is backing Obama. Cumming and her husband hosted the Illinois U.S. senator in their Park City home for a fundraiser last summer.

A total of three Utah superdelegates now support Obama, and two support Clinton.

Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, is the state's only superdelegate who remains uncommitted to either candidate.

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