The director of customer services and relations at Potlatch has been appointed to fill a vacant spot on the Lewiston School Board.

Gary Arndt is a member of the Lewis-Clark State College Foundation and has lived in Lewiston for 16 years. He is a native of Salt Lake City with a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Utah, and he’s worked at Potlatch for 21 years.

Arndt will fill the slot vacated by Neal Clinger and be seated at a Sept. 22 work session.

Also interviewed for the position were Andrew Dahlquist, an associate professor of math and physics at Lewis-Clark State College and Mark Havens, executive director of Gritman Medical Center Foundation.