SALT LAKE CITY?Winston Wilkinson, a Salt Lake County commissioner, has joined the list of Republicans who want to challenge U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, for the 2nd Congressional District.

Wilkinson is also a member of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee’s Board of Trustees.

He was deputy director in the Office of Civil Rights under the elder Bush administration and a special assistant to the Secretary of Education under the Reagan Administration.

Other Republicans seeking the nomination include state Rep. John Swallow, Gary R. Stephens, David Smith and Jay Jorgensen.