WASHINGTON — House leaders yesterday announced the six members and two alternates who will make up the Office of Congressional Ethics, an outside independent group created to restore integrity to a flawed ethics process.

With the creation of the new office, said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat of California, who selected members of the bipartisan office with Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio, “We bring a new element of transparency and accountability to the ethics process.”

The office will be charged with reviewing cases and referring them to the House ethics committee, which in recent years has often been inactive or ineffective because of partisan fighting. House Democrats pushed through the measure creating the outside panel last March.

The panel will be chaired by former Rep. David Skaggs, a Democrat of Colorado, and co-chaired by former CIA director and Rep. Porter Goss, a Republican of Florida. Other members are former Rep. Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, a Democrat of California; former House Chief Administrative Officer Jay Eagen; former Rep. Karan English, a Democrat of California, and a George Mason law professor and former Federal Election Commission chief of staff ,Allison Hayward.

The two alternatives are former federal judge and former Rep. Abner Mikva, a Democrat of Illinois, and former Rep. Bill Frenzel, a Republican of Minnesota.