ST. LOUIS (AP) — A business owner, two pastors, a community activist and a police detective are among the 16 people appointed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to an independent panel tasked with helping the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson heal after the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Nixon introduced the nine black and seven white members of the Ferguson Commission Tuesday in St. Louis. The commission was created to study the underlying social and economic conditions underscored by unrest following the early August shooting of Brown, who was black, by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, who is white. It will make recommendations in a report due by September 2015.

The shooting prompted sometimes-violent demonstrations along with peaceful protests.

A St. Louis County grand jury is considering possible criminal charges against Wilson.