Jury Says Board Members Discriminated

{Charleston, West Virginia}…Friday, a Kanawha County jury concluded that Sam Sommerville, Ron Stoner and Norm Cannada, three members of the Bob Burdette Center, withdrew the center's executive director's job offer to 34 year old Jessica Hudson of Charleston after a staffer found out through social media she was in a relationship with another woman. Hudson applied for the after-school program's vacant executive director position last year. She had two interviews with the board members, who agreed to hire her. After she accepted the position and after she quit her own job, one of the board members withdrew the offer and accused her of lying on her résumé. The jurors found that the center's board did not discriminate against Hudson based on gender stereotypes and that they were not liable for intentional infliction of emotional distress.