North Carolina Department of Correction v. Hodge

GREENE, Judge.

The State appeals the superior court’s order affirming the award of the State Personnel Commission (“Commission”) in favor of employee Edward Earl Hodge (“Hodge”) for racial discrimination in a Central Prison correctional officer employment promotion decision.

The record shows that the North Carolina Department of Correction, Division of Prisons, employed Hodge, who is black, as a lieutenant correctional officer at Central Prison. In March, 1987, a black correctional officer transferred from his captain’s position, leaving a vacancy, for which Hodge applied. At the time Hodge…