Dorfman v. Pine Hill Board of Education

OPINION

Judith Dorfman appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of appellees in her employment discrimination action. For the following reasons, we will affirm the district court’s judgment.

I. Background

The Pine Hill Board of Education (“Pine Hill”) hired Dorfman as a music teacher at John H. Glenn School in New Jersey starting in 2001 and her contract was renewed for each of the next two years. At the time of her hiring, Dorfman was fifty-six years old and her principal and performance evaluator was Mark Durand. Du-rand retired at the end of the 2002-2003 school…