BY Trudy Ring

November 03 2009 3:10 PM ET

An assistant U.S. attorney general, the attorney general of Illinois, and representatives of Nike and the National Association of Religious Broadcasters will be among witnesses discussing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act at a Senate committee hearing Thursday.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, the witnesses will be Tom Perez (pictured, right), assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division; Helen Norton, associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Law; Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan (pictured, left; Nike diversity and inclusion team member Virginia Nguyen; Springfield, Mass., police officer Mike Carney; Craig Parshall (pictured, center), senior vice president and general counsel for the National Religious Broadcasters Association; and Camille Olson, a partner in the Chicago law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

The hearing is set for 10 a.m. before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.







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