Roberson v. University of Tennessee

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

Plaintiff has been employed by defendant’s Agricultural Extension Service since 1980. She was eligible for a raise and promotion in 1986, and when she learned that she had not been promoted and her coworker Richard Skillington who also had been hired as an assistant agent in 1979 was promoted, plaintiff filed an EEOC charge. Subsequently, on April 10, 1987, she brought this action for sex discrimination under the Equal Pay Act and the Tennessee Human Rights Act and alleged defendant had retaliated against her for filing the EEOC charge. After a lengthy jury trial,…