Governor Doug Burgum has appointed a Mandan man and a Grand Forks student to the state Board of Higher Education.

Donald “DJ” Campbell, vice president and chief human resources officer of Sanford Health, will serve a four-year term, and Maxwell Eriksrud, a student at the University of North Dakota, will serve a one-year term.

The four-year term of incumbent board member and vice chairman John Warford, an orthodontist and former mayor of Bismarck, ends June 30. He has not sought reappointment, and Campbell will take his seat beginning July 1.

Campbell attended Bismarck State College and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from Capella University in Minneapolis. He is a member of the North Dakota Workforce Development Council, the TrainND Advisory Council and the Greater North Dakota Chamber's Workforce Policy Committee.

“With his strong background in business, human resources and recruiting at all 11 of our public colleges, DJ Campbell will bring valuable experience to the board's efforts to ensure our university system delivers high-quality education, meets workforce needs and adapts to the powerful demographic, economic, cultural and technological forces affecting higher education,” Burgum said in a statement.

Eriksrud grew up in Chaska, Minnesota, and spent summers helping his uncle and grandfather on the family farm near Scranton. He has a double major in accounting and entrepreneurship, and minors in chemistry and biology. He is a student ambassador and off-campus senator for UND Student Government. He is also chief financial officer of the Dakota Venture Group, a student-run venture capital fund, as well as vice president of the men's soccer club and a member of the UND Jazz Band.

Other regional candidates for Warford's seat included Wendy Kopp of Bismarck, chief nursing officer in Sanford; Stan Schauer of Bismarck, director of the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction's examinations division; Kari Cutting of Beulah, consultant and former vice president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council; Nadine Hagen of Turtle Lake, speech therapist at Underwood Public School; and Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills of New Town, director of food sovereignty at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College. None of them were finalists.