D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray missed a legal deadline on Wednesday to name his appointees to the city’s new Board of Ethics and Government Accountability, the panel created in the wake of the corruption probes that have enveloped the municipal government.

Under the law establishing the board, which will probe allegations of unethical conduct in District government and craft ethics guidelines for city employees, Gray was to select the panel’s inaugural three members by March 14 — 45 days after the law went into force. But that date came and went without nominees, all of whom the D.C. Council will have to approve.