Steele v. City of Topeka

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ERIC F. MELGREN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Plaintiff Exzetta Steele’s race and gender made her unlike any other manager in Defendant City of Topeka’s Street Maintenance and Traffic Operations Division (“Division”). No other Division manager was African-American. No other Division manager was a woman. And, according to Steele, she suffered because of these differences. Once she had suffered enough, she left the Division for other work with the City. Then she sued the City. Did Steele suffer the kind and degree of workplace discomfort necessary under Title VII to hold the…