President Obama nominated Thomas E. Perez to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division on March 31, 2009. A hearing to consider his nomination was held on April 29, 2009. An archived webcast is available. 
On June 4, 2009, the Judiciary Committee ordered the nomination reported to the Senate for consideration.
- Committee Questionnaire and Related Materials
- Responses to Questions Submitted for the Record
- Letters Received in Connection with the Nomination
- Question 12A - Part 1
- Question 12A - Part 2
- Question 12A - Part 3
- Question 12A - Part 4
- Question 12A - Part 5
- Question 12A - Part 6
- Question 12B - Part 1
- Question 12B - Part 2
- Question 12B - Part 3
- Question 12B - Part 4
- Question 12B - Part 5
- Question 12B - Part 6
- Question 12B - Part 7
- Question 12C
- Question 12D
- Question 12E
- Question 20
- Supplement - April 17, 2009
- Supplement - April 29, 2009
Responses to Questions Submitted for the Record
- Questions for the Record: Ranking Member Jeff Sessions
- Questions for the Record: Senator Richard Durbin
- Questions for the Record: Senator Orrin Hatch
- Questions for the Record: Senator John Cornyn
- Questions for the Record: Senator Tom Coburn
Letters Received in Connection with the Nomination
- April 29, 2009 - Robert A. Peck, Managing Director, Jones Lang LaSalle
- April 29, 2009 - Joint Letter [Patrick Lynch, Rhode Island Attorney General; Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General; Alicia G. Limtiaco, Guam Attorney General; Mark J. Bennett, Hawaii Attorney General; Tom Miller, Iowa Attorney General; James D. "Buddy" Caldwell, Louisiana Attorney General; Jim Hood, Mississippi Attorney General; Gary King, New Mexico Attorney General; Richard Cordray, Ohio Attorney General]
- April 29, 2009 - Congressional Hispanic Caucus
- April 28, 2009 - Organization of Chinese Americans
- April 28, 2009 - National Women's Law Center
- April 28, 2009 - National Fair Housing Alliance
- April 28, 2009 - Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- April 28, 2009 - Representative Barbara Lee (California)
- April 28, 2009 - Jamie S. Gorelick, WilmerHale, former Deputy Attorney General
- April 28, 2009 - Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, and Wan J. Kim, former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division
- April 27, 2009 - State Law Enforcement Officers Alliance
- April 28, 2009 - Joint Letter [Brian W. Jones, Manus Cooney, Rhett DeHart, Mark Disler]
- April 27, 2009 - Representative C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger (Maryland)
- April 27, 2009 - Representative Erik Paulsen (Minnesota)
- April 27, 2009 - Isiah Leggett, County Executive, Montgomery County, Maryland
- April 27, 2009 - Leadership Conference on Civil Rights [Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, ADA Watch, Alliance for Justice, American Association of University Women (AAUW), American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Americans for Democratic Action, Asian American Justice Center, Bazelon Center, Feminist Majority, Human Rights Campaign, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, National Abortion Federatino, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Association of Consumer Advocates, National Coalition for Disability Rights (NCDR), National Council of Jewish Women, National Council of La Raza (NCLR), National Education Association, National Fair Housing Alliance, National Health Law Program, National Partnership for Women & Families, National Women's Law Center, People for the American Way, The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law]
- April 27, 2009 - Joint Letter [Terry Goddard, Attorney General of Arizona; Tom Miller, Attorney General of Iowa; Martha Coakley, Attorney General of Massachusetts; Jon Bruning, Attorney General of Nebraska; Mark Shurtleff, Attorney General of Utah; Rob McKenna, Attorney General of Washington; William H. Sorrell, Attorney General of Vermont]
- April 27, 2009 - Hispanic National Bar Association
- April 26, 2009 - Stop Predatory Gambling
- April 26, 2009 - Collective Banking Group, Inc.
- April 24, 2009 - Jeffrie Zellmer, Legislative Director, Maryland Retailers Association
- April 24, 2009 - People for the American Way
- April 24, 2009 - National Council of La Raza
- April 24, 2009 - NAACP Maryland State Conference
- April 24, 2009 - R. Michael S. Menzies, President, Easton Bank and Trust
- April 24, 2009 - Bill Lann Lee, Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C., former Assistant Attorney General
- April 24, 2009 - William Kirwan, Chancellor, University System of Maryland
- April 24, 2009 - Boys & Girls Clubs of America
- April 24, 2009 - Asian American Justice Center
- April 23, 2009 - Talbot County Maryland Chamber of Commerce
- April 23, 2009 - Colonel Terrence B. Sheridan, Superintendent, Maryland State Police
- April 23, 2009 - Anthony J. O'Donnell, Minority Leader, Maryland House of Delegates
- April 23, 2009 - Kathleen M. Murphy, President and CEO, Maryland Bankers Association
- April 23, 2009 - Anne Milgram, Attorney General, State of New Jersey
- April 23, 2009 - Champe C. McCulloch, President, Maryland Associated General Contractors
- April 23, 2009 - J. Thomas Manger, Chief of Police, Montgomery County, Maryland
- April 22, 2009 - Representative Chris Van Hollen (Maryland)
- April 22, 2009 - Kathleen T. Snyder, CCE, President/CEO, Maryland Chamber of Commerce
- April 22, 2009 - Karen H. Rothenberg, J.D., M.P.A., Dean, Marjorie Cook Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law
- April 22, 2009 - Janet Reno, former Attorney General
- April 22, 2009 - Anne Balcer Norton, Director, Foreclosure Prevention, St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center
- April 22, 2009 - Montgomery County, Maryland, Chamber of Commerce
- April 22, 2009 - Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., President of the Senate, Maryland General Assembly; Michael E. Busch, Speaker of the House, Maryland General Assembly
- April 22, 2009 - Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
- April 21, 2009 - Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine; former Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
- April 21, 2009 - Martin O'Malley, Governor, State of Maryland
- April 21, 2009 - Raymond M. Kight, Sheriff, Montgomery County, Maryland
- April 21, 2009 - Donna E. Shalala, President, University of Miami
- April 21, 2009 - Representative Steny H. Hoyer (Maryland)
- April 21, 2009 - Howard A. Denis, former member, Montgomery County Council, Maryland
- April 20, 2009 - Stephen H. Sachs, former U.S. Attorney; former Attorney General, State of Maryland
- April 20, 2009 - Ronald R. Peterson, President, Johns Hopkins Health System, and William G. Robertson, President & CEO, Adventist HealthCare
- April 20, 2009 - John J. McCarthy, State's Attorney, Montgomery County, Maryland
- April 20, 2009 - Maryland Association of Realtors
- April 20, 2009 - Former Assistant Attorneys General for the Civil Rights Division [John R. Dunne, Deval Patrick, J. Stanley Pottinger, Bill Lann Lee, Stephen J. Pollak, James P. Turner]
- April 20, 2009 - Alexander Gordon, IV
- April 20, 2009 - M. H. Jim Estepp, President & CEO, Greater Prince George's Business Roundtable
- April 20, 2009 - Representative Elijah E. Cummings (Maryland)
- April 20, 2009 - Robin Carnahan, Secretary of State, Missouri; Trey Grayson, Secretary of State, Kentucky
- April 17, 2009 - John M. Kane, President and CEO, The Kane Company
- April 17, 2009 - Dave Durenberger, former U.S. Senator; Chair, National Institute of Health Policy
- April 16, 2009 - Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts)
- April 15, 2009 - League of Dominican American Elected Officials
- April 14, 2009 - Anti-Defamation League
- April 3, 2009 - Reynaldo R. Martinez, Councilman, Borough of Haledon, New Jersey
