BOISE (AP) - Republicans named one of their new redistricting commission members, but held off on adding their final two members as the deadline approaches for the panel to begin meetings this week.

Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill named Sheila Olsen on Monday. Olsen is the widow of a former state GOP chairman.

But Republican Party Chairman Norm Semanko says he'll wait until later before he and House Speaker Lawerence Denney announce the remaining two GOP commissioners. They have until Wednesday, when the reorganized panel is due to begin meeting on drawing up Idaho's political boundaries.

The boundaries of the state's 35 legislative and two congressional districts must be reconfigured every decade to reflect population growth and shifts identified in the U.S. census, to preserve the one-person, one-vote principle.

Democrats named their panelists last week: Ron Beitelspacher, a retired utility lineman from Grangeville; Shauneen Grange, a Democratic activist; and Elmer Martinez, a former state representative from Pocatello from 2002 to 2006.

A previous bipartisan, six-member commission failed in early September to come to an agreement after 92 days of often tense meetings.

The two sides disagreed over whether it was more important to keep counties intact where possible, as Democrats contended, or whether the panel should pay more attention to provisions aimed at preventing large, unwieldy districts, as Republicans wanted.

Those six commissioners belatedly reached a pact Friday, but their plans for Idaho's 35 legislative districts and two congressional districts don't count because their panel had already disbanded.

"It has no real legal effect," said Secretary of State Ben Ysursa on Monday. "It's up to the new commission."

Ysursa is optimistic that the work of the previous commission will help expedite the creation of a plan both sides can agree to, but he still expects various groups to file lawsuits, as happened most recently in 2001.

The previous commissioners - Republicans Evan Frasure, Lorna Finman and Lou Esposito, along with Democrats Allen Andersen, Julie Kane and George Moses - will get a chance to present the merits of their plan to the new commissioners on Wednesday.

Semanko told The Associated Press he expects new commissioners will take a serious look at these plans, given the hard work the previous commissioners put into it.

"If our six commissioners voted to support it, it seems like something the new commissioners should be taking a hard look at," he said.