Seventh Circuit Finds Lack of Discriminatory Pretext in Reassignment of Principal – Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn

Seventh Circuit Finds Lack of Discriminatory Pretext in Reassignment of Principal – Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn

In Hagen v. Fond du Lac School District, a female principal in her 50s alleged that the District discriminated against her on the basis of age and sex after the District reassigned her from a high school to an elementary school, which came with a reduction in pay, and hired a younger male administrator for her former position. The District argued that it had reassigned her because she was not making progress on her goals at the high school and w…