Goetz served as chief of staff to Schafer and Hoeven during Lindquist's time as commission director. The Indian Affairs Commission includes the chairmen of the five American Indian tribes with reservation land in North Dakota.
New Board of Higher Education member Duaine Espegard, a retired Grand Forks banker and former state senator, wondered during Tuesday's meeting whether the search committee could grow still larger.
Espegard offered to resign his own position on the search committee to keep its membership at 16 once Lindquist was added. He withdrew his offer when Paulsen assured him he would not support adding other members to the search committee "under any circumstances."
--Associated Press
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