Odegaard v. Everett School District No. 2

Facts of Case

At issue in this case is whether an elementary school principal's transfer to a teaching position by the school district was an arbitrary, capricious and unlawful decision. We hold that it was not.

Joanne Odegaard, the plaintiff herein, was employed by the Everett School District as principal of Hawthorne Elementary School from 1984 to 1986. She received satisfactory annual evaluations from Everett School District Deputy Superintendent Robert Whitehead, her immediate supervisor, during her years at Hawthorne. She took a year's sabbatical leave in 1986-1987 and returned as…