Gail Stern v. Department of the Army

FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner challenges a decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (“the Board”) that it had no jurisdiction to entertain her appeal from her dismissal as a civilian employee of the Army. We affirm.

I

Between 1978 and 1980, the petitioner, a dependent of a serviceman, was a civilian employee of the Army in various positions in military commissary stores in Germany. She served under three successive appointments. The last appointment, under which she was serving when she was dismissed, was made on January 1, 1980. It was a temporary appointment (i.e., one year or…