Topeka ? Gov. Kathleen Sebelius completed her Cabinet appointments Friday, naming an acting commissioner of juvenile justice and acting secretaries of aging and agriculture.

Sebelius appointed Greg Foley to the agriculture job, rejecting three nominees submitted by an advisory board that screens applications. Foley is assistant agriculture secretary.

At the Department on Aging, the governor promoted Deputy Secretary Janis DeBoer.

And Sebelius appointed Topeka attorney Denise Everhart, a former Kansas House member, to lead the Juvenile Justice Authority.

Sebelius considers the appointments to be short-term while she searches for permanent agency leaders, said her spokeswoman, Nicole Corcoran-Basso. Sebelius earlier named acting secretaries for the Revenue and Human Resources departments.

DeBoer, 44, of Perry, has worked for the Department on Aging since 1997 and is a former Lyon County Health Department staff member. Everhart, a Democrat, served in the House from 1989 to 1994.

Foley, 36, of rural Douglas County, has been assistant agriculture secretary for two years. He also has worked for the Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Conservation Commission.

State law provides for the Governor’s Advisory Board of Agriculture to suggest three nominees to the governor, who can appoint one or reject all three. The board still had a majority of members appointed by Gov. Bill Graves when it forwarded three names to Sebelius in December.

Neither Sebelius nor Corcoran-Basso would say whether the governor has a favored candidate. However, some legislators believe it is Belleville farmer Adrian Polansky, who led a team she appointed to review natural resources agencies.

When Sebelius took office Monday, the terms of five of the agriculture advisory board’s nine members expired, so a majority are now her appointees.