Managing Diversity of Senior Leadership in the Federal Workforce and Postal Service

The House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia and the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia will hold a hearing entitled “Managing Diversity of Senior Leadership in the Federal Workforce and Postal Service” on Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building.

The hearing will examine the views of various governmental and non-governmental officials on the “Senior Executive Service Diversity Assurance Act” (H.R. 3774 and S. 2148). The hearing will also discuss efforts within the Executive Branch and Postal Organizations to create a diverse senior executive service as part of a larger strategy to improve the overall diversity of their respective workforces.

The following witnesses are slated to testify:

PANEL I

• Ms. Nancy Kichak, Associate Director, Strategic Human Resources Policy Division, Office of Personnel Management

• Ms. Susan LaChance, Vice President of Employee Development and Diversity, United States Postal Service

PANEL II

• Mr. George H. Stalcup, Director, Strategic Issues, Government Accounting Office

• Ms. Katherine Siggerud, Director, Physical Infrastructure, Government Accounting Office

PANEL III

• The Honorable Dan Blair, Chairman, Postal Regulatory Commission

• Mr. Ronald Stith, Assistant Inspector General for Mission Support, United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General

• Ms. Nicole A. Johnson, Assistant Chief Inspector Investigations and Security Support
U.S. Postal Inspection Service

• Mr. Bray Barnes , Acting Chief Human Capital Officer Department of Homeland Security

• Ms. Carmen Walker, Deputy Officer, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Department of Homeland Security

PANEL IV

• Mr. William Bransford, General Counsel, Senior Executives Association

• Mr. William Brown, President, African American Federal Executives Association

• Ms. Rhonda Trent, President, Federally Employed Women

• Dr. Carson Eoyang, Executive Director, Asian American Government Executives Network

• Mr. Gilbert Sandate, Senior Policy Associate, National Association of Hispanic Federal Executives

• Ms. Darlene Young, President, Blacks in Government