Wallace v. Board of Trustees

HUNTER, Judge.

Respondent-appellant Board of Trustees Local Governmental Employees Retirement System (“Board”) appeals the trial court’s reversal of its final agency decision in which the Board decided Jane A. Wallace (“petitioner”) was not entitled to disability retirement benefits for the months of March 1997 and October 1997 through May 1999. Having reviewed the whole record before us, we reverse the trial court’s ruling.

Facts pertinent to this appeal are as follows: Petitioner “suffers from a bipolar, or manic-depressive, mood disorder.” In 1988, she gained full-time employment with Trend…