The City Council this week approved the nominations of two new members to the Honolulu Police Commission, giving the high-profile, seven-member panel a full complement of commissioners for the first time in months.

The two new commissioners are hotel executive Gerard “Jerry” Gibson and businesswoman Karen Chang.

Council Chairman Ron Menor two weeks ago sought to speed up the nominations in hopes of getting the two new members on board in case the four current commission members tasked with picking a new police chief could not come to a consensus selection.

That point became moot, however, when the commission announced Oct. 25 that it had selected Maj. Susan Ballard to lead the 2,000-officer Honolulu Police Department. Ballard was sworn in Wednesday, only hours before the nominations of Gibson and Chang were approved.

Gibson, whose term will run through June 30, is area vice president of Hilton Hawaii and managing director of Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort. He replaces Marc Tilker, who resigned from the commission in May for personal reasons.

Gibson is in charge of all of Hilton’s managed properties in Hawaii, Washington state, Oregon, Arizona and Las Vegas.

Before arriving in Honolulu for the Hilton post in 2008, he worked with the Hyatt and Marriott chains. He started his hotel management career with the Ramada Inn at the Honolulu airport, according to information provided by Caldwell’s office.

Chang, whose term will expire June 30, 2021, replaces Luella Costales, a holdover commissioner who resigned in September because she disagreed with the chief’s selection process.

She is chairwoman of Irvine, Calif.-based digital health company LIVMOR and chairwoman of the board of Hawaii Pacific Health, where she has served since 2009. She has also served on the boards of several other organizations, including as a director of the March of Dimes Hawaii chapter.

Previously, Chang was a senior executive in two Fortune 500 companies as senior marketing vice president at American Express and president for the Individual Investor Enterprise at Charles Schwab.

The mayor had received some criticism for failing to fill the vacancies earlier, given the gravity of the police search. Caldwell responded that potential commissioners had turned down his offers, sometimes citing the intense media scrutiny of the commission in light of recent public scandals involving the police department.