Gov. David Ige has nominated Keith "Keone" Downing, Ulalia Woodside and Christopher Yuen to the seven-member Board of Land and Natural Resources.

All three nominations, made Tuesday, are subject to Senate confirmation.

Yuen and Woodside have been serving on the board on an interim basis.

Woodside lives in Waimanalo and serves as the regional asset manager for natural and cultural resources at Kamehameha Schools’ Land Assets Division. She has also worked at Wilson Okamoto Corp., The Hallstrom Group and the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Woodside received bachelor’s degrees in political science and Hawaiian studies, along with a certificate in Hawaiian language, from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In addition, she is a kumu hula.

Woodside serves as a steering committee member for Hawaii Green Growth and is the indigenous representative for the Landscape Conservation Cooperative National Council. She is a former commissioner for the Natural Area Reserves System Commission and a former executive council chairwoman for the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative.

Yuen, a resident of Ninole, Hawaii island, held the board’s Hawaii County seat from 1990 to 1998. He is on the advisory councils for the Laupahoehoe and Puuwaawaa Experimental Tropical Forest. Since 1995, Yuen has owned and managed The Family Farm Inc., a 20-acre certified organic farm supplying local markets with bananas, lychee and rambutan. From 2000 to 2008, he served as Hawaii County’s planning director. He has also served as the county’s deputy corporation counsel and practiced law as a private attorney.

Yuen received a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University, a master’s degree in environmental science from State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and a law degree from the UH William S. Richardson School of Law.

Downing, an expert waterman and big-wave rider, is the son of big-wave pioneer George Downing, one of Hawaii’s major figures in modern surfing. Born and raised in Honolulu, Downing and his sister Kaiulu run a family-owned business that is also Hawaii’s oldest surf shop, Downing Hawaii. Downing also is involved with the nonprofit Surfing Education Association.

Downing, a Kamehameha Schools alumnus, is a 1975 graduate of the California College of the Arts, with a degree in commercial art. He has designed logos for Quiksilver and O’Neill.