Gov. Linda Lingle yesterday nominated Michael A. Dahilig to fill the remaining University of Hawai'i Board of Regents seat after the state Supreme Court Tuesday denied her request for more time to appoint a new member.

The court ruled in December that Lingle was improperly keeping six regents on the board as holdovers and gave the governor 30 days to make new appointments. She made five appointments to the board earlier this month but asked for more time to get additional names for the sixth appointment from the UH Regents Candidate Advisory Council.

Lingle argued that of qualified candidates presented to her by the council, two of the remaining three candidates for the second at-large regent withdrew their names from consideration. The Supreme Court denied the motion, leaving Dahilig as the remaining candidate.

Dahilig previously served as the student member to the Board of Regents. He earned his law degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law and a bachelor's of science degree in geology and geophysics from the School of Ocean and Earth Science Technology at UH-Manoa.

The five regents nominated earlier this month were: Ramon de la Pena, a UH emeritus professor; Mark Fukunaga, CEO of Servco Pacific; Chuck Gee, former dean of the UH School of Travel Industry Management; Eric Martinson, managing director of Tradewind Capital Group; and Grant Teichman, a UH history and political science major.