The Dukes County commission will consider five candidates for the position of county manager, four candidates from the Vineyard and one from the mainland.

Search committee members reviewed the finalists at a meeting Tuesday morning. The on-Island candidates are Christopher Knowles, health director for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah); Martina Thornton, current executive assistant to the county manager; Jessica Burgoyne, property manager for the Morgan Woods affordable housing development; and Jeffrey Madison, an Island attorney. The off-Island candidate is Katherine Rogers, an attorney for Merrimack County in New Hampshire.

Members of the search committee, which includes Carlene Gatting, Leonard Jason Jr., Jeffrey (Skipper) Manter 3rd and Mike Joyce, said they will present their recommendations to the full commission in the coming weeks. The commission will then conduct public interviews.

The new manager will take the position formally held by Russell Smith, who left his post after four years on the job earlier this month. County treasurer Noreen Flanders has served as interim county manager since then.