The state Board of Regents re-elected David Miles as the regents’ president on Thursday.

Miles, 53, a resident of West Des Moines, was voted in unanimously.

“I am honored by the confidence of the board and look very much forward to the next two years,” Miles said.

Owner and managing director of Miles Capital Holdings, Miles was elected regents’ president for the first time in December 2007.

“One good term deserves another,” Regent Robert Downer said.

Regent Jack Evans was re-elected as president pro-tem. The 61-year-old Cedar Rapids resident is president of the Hall-Perrine Foundation, a philanthropic organization.

Evans was first elected president pro-tem in February 2008.

— by Emily Busse