A black woman who is a former UTC employee is claiming race and age discrimination in her 2010 firing.
Karen Drake, who is over 40, alleges in a Hamilton County Chancery Court lawsuit filed Tuesday that the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga replaced her with a white woman, half her age, whom she had trained.
Then UTC prevented her from finding work elsewhere at the college when her position was eliminated, the lawsuit claims.
Drake is asking for her job back along with back pay and benefits, plus unspecified damages for emotional distress.
One reason she was prevented from finding another position, she claims, was that she spoke out about hazing that her daughter, Jasmine Johnson, experienced while attending the school and pledging the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.