Dishmon v. Shelby State Community College

OPINION

WILLIAM C. KOCH, Jr., Judge.

This appeal involves a dispute over back pay between Shelby State Community College and its Dean of Student Affairs. After the college president reinstated him approximately three years following his termination, the dean filed a petition under the Tennessee Uniform Administrative Procedures Act in the Chancery Court for Davidson County seeking back pay. The trial court conducted a bench trial and concluded that the dean was entitled to back pay. The college asserts on this appeal that its decision not to grant the dean back pay was not arbitrary and that…