The agenda does not, however, list the name of the potential appointee. Board Chairman Charlotte Nash declined to provide more information Monday.

“The appointment was placed on the agenda for tomorrow's meeting in anticipation of the Board being ready to make this appointment,” she wrote in an email. “Release of any other information is premature now.”

But Nash did say last week that the BOC had “a few potential folks” in mind.

"We really are trying to focus on somebody that's independent, thats not tied to a lot of specific groups or anything like that," Nash said after a lengthy, protest-filled meeting. "... Trying to find somebody that's interested enough to do it but's not already locked into a position."

Woman who filed Gwinnett ethics complaint speaks

Other appointments to the board of ethics come from the Gwinnett County Bar Association, the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office, the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia and the subject of the complaint — in this case Hunter.

The bar association has already appointed local attorney David Will, and District Attorney Danny Porter has appointed a grand juror named Terri R. Duncan.

As of late last week, the remaining appointments had not yet been made.

Once the ethics board is in place, Hunter’s team will have 30 days to file a formal response to the complaint. The panel will then investigate as it sees fit and vote whether or not to sustain the complaint.

If the complaint is sustained, the ethics board could then recommend penalties ranging from written reprimand to removal from office and referral to criminal authorities.

A spokesman for Hunter has called the construction of the ethics board "entirely unconstitutional" and the ultimate fate of the complaint may lie in the hands of a judge in DeKalb County, where ex-Commissioner Sharon Barnes Sutton is challenging the legality of her county's ethics board.

That board, like Gwinnett's, relies on some appointments from private organizations. Barnes Sutton's lawsuit claims only elected officials should be able to make such appointments.

The ethics complaint against Hunter is the first ever filed under Gwinnett’s 2011 ethics ordinance, which was intended to target shady land deals and other types of corruption.