The state Department of Land and Natural Resources has identified the members of a search committee formed to recruit candidates to fill vacancies within the department's State Historic Preservation Division.

Search committee members include retired First Circuit Judge Patrick K.S.L. Yim, who also is a trustee for the Queen Lili'uokalani Trust; Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner and educator Ku Kahakalau, who founded the charter school Kanu o ka 'Aina Learning 'Ohana in Waimea on the Big Island; and Timothy Johns, former chairman of the Department of Land and Natural Resources and a current member of the board. Johns is also president and chief executive officer of the Bishop Museum, and a trustee for the Parker Ranch Foundation Trust.