Hazelwood v. Mercer County Board of Education

This case is before this Court upon an appeal from the final order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, entered on May 7, 1996. In this case, the appellant, Sandra Ranae Hazelwood, a teacher’s aide currently employed by the appellee, the Mercer County Board of Education, seeks seniority credit for a period of previous employment with the appellee. Specifically, the appellant was hired as a teacher’s aide in 1987 by the appellee but had previously worked as a teacher’s aide for the appellee from October 1979 until her voluntary resignation in December 1984. The seniority…