HELENA — Gov. Brian Schweitzer last week appointed four members to the state Board of Investments and three new members to the Montana Human Rights Commission.

He appointed a current Board of Investments member, Terry Moore of Billings, as chairman. Moore, appointed to the board in 2003 by Gov. Judy Martz, is chief financial officer and executive vice president of First Interstate BancSystem Inc. in Billings where he manages $4.3 billion in assets. He previously was chief financial officer for Commerce BancShares of Wyoming and an audit manager for KPMG Peat Marwick. Moore received a bachelor's degree from Montana State University and completed the senior management program at Columbia University.

New members named to the state Board of Investments were:

-- Elouise Cobell, Browning. Cobell was a founder of the Blackfeet National Bank, the first national bank owned by an Indian Tribe. She serves on the board of directors of the Native American Bank Corporation and the board of directors for First Interstate BankCorp. Cobell is on the board of directors for the Northwest Area Foundation and was the treasurer of the Montana Community Foundation. She received a MacArthur Genius Award. Cobell organized and manages the Native American Community Development Corp. and she and her husband own and operate a ranch on the Blackfeet Indian Nation.

-- Terry Cohea, Helena. Cohea has been the Helena branch manager for D.A. Davidson & Co. since 2001, eight years after joining the firm and serves on the company's board of directors. Cohea spent 18 years in state government, where she served as the legislative fiscal analyst and a bureau chief in the Department of Revenue. Cohea was Montana's first female chief of staff to a governor, working for Gov. Ted Schwinden. Cohea has bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the University of Montana. She was the state's first recipient of the Marshall Scholar Award.

-- Jack Prothero, Great Falls. He is the treasurer of the Neighborhood Housing Service and board member for the Montana Homeowners Network. He is a past board member of the UM School of Business. He has a bachelor's degree in business from UM and a master's degree in business from the University of Washington. He's been employed at various banks as a branch manager, loan officer, collection supervisor, appraisal review officer and real estate loan officer.

-- James Turcotte, Helena. He is a financial consultant with Raymond James Financial Services. He attended Carroll College and received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Montana State University-Billings. He pursued a career as a charter pilot, and then went to work for the state's retirement division until 1981, when he left his position as assistant administrator to begin a career in financial service.

Schweitzer named Franke Wilmer of Bozeman as chairwoman of the Montana Human Rights Commission.

Wilmer is chairwoman of the department of Political Science at Montana State University-Bozeman. She's a member of the Gallatin Human Rights Task Force and has served on the Montana Committee for the Humanities. Wilmer earned her doctorate in government and politics from the University of Maryland, and has been a professor at MSU since 1991. She's had two books published along with several articles and book chapters on human rights and other topics.

Here are the other new members of the Montana Human Rights Commission:

-- Rabbi Allen Secher, Whitefish. He was ordained as a reform rabbi by Hebrew Union College in 1961 and received his doctorate in humane letters in 1987. As a Freedom Rider and participant in Martin Luther King's civil rights movement during the 1960s, Secher was jailed in Albany, Ga., after leading a prayer service to integrate the town library. He founded the Jewish Catholic Dialogue Group in Chicago and has been involved in the National Conference of Christians and Jews and was communications director for the Jewish Federation of Chicago.

-- Janine Pease, Billings. She is the vice president for American Indian Affairs with Rocky Mountain College. She is an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe. Pease earned a doctorate in higher education from MSU. Pease previously owned a consulting firm and served as president of the Little Big Horn College from 1982 to 2000. Pease has been awarded the National Indian Educator of the Year in 1990, received a MacArthur Genius Award in 1994 and served on the a number of national committees. She was appointed by the Montana Supreme Court in 1999 as presiding officer of the Montana Districting and Apportionment Commission.