Sandra THEARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GLAXO, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge LUTTIG wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINS and Senior Judge LAY joined.

OPINION

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, Sandra Theard, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina granting summary judgment in favor of appellee Glaxo, Incorporated, on Theard’s 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and state law claims. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

I

Between September 1987 and May 1990, Sandra Theard, a black woman, worked for a North Carolina pharmaceutical corporation, Glaxo, Incorporated. During her tenure at Glaxo,…