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Former worker sues USC for allegedly letting Mike Bohn harass her, then firing her

By Editorial Board Published January 10, 2025 6 Min Read
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Former worker sues USC for allegedly letting Mike Bohn harass her, then firing her

A high-ranking former official in USC’s athletic division filed a lawsuit alleging that USC allowed former athletic director Mike Bohn to racially harass and discriminate towards her, then fired her after she voiced issues about Bohn’s conduct.

Joyce Bell Limbrick was the highest-ranking feminine and Black official in USC’s athletic administration, in addition to the one Black feminine administrator on the division’s govt crew. Bell Limbrick says her once-promising profession was irreparably modified when Bohn was employed to steer USC’s athletic division in 2019.

Bohn resigned in Might 2023, a day after The Occasions requested him and USC about inside criticism of his administration of the athletic division. The Occasions later discovered Bohn had been underneath investigation for racial and gender discrimination on the College of Cincinnati, his earlier employer, on the time of his hiring.

“Ms. Bell Limbrick had a thriving career at USC and she loved her work. Then, Mike Bohn arrived,” her lawyer, J. Bernard Alexander, stated in a press release.

”[Bohn’s] incessant, racially charged remarks made Joyce really feel uncomfortable and undervalued, however greater than that — he actively remoted her from the manager crew and undermined her work. She already was weak as the one Black lady on the crew, and reasonably than assist her, the college allowed Bohn to make her life hell.”

The college stated in a press release to The Occasions Friday that it simply acquired Bell Limbrick’s grievance and would reply “once we have reviewed it fully.”

Her lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court docket, presents probably the most detailed claims but about the regarding conduct that led to Bohn’s resignation, together with harassment and racially insensitive feedback and one occasion of undesirable touching by Bohn, who Bell Limbrick says punched her on the arm at a college volleyball match in October 2022, prompting a college investigation.

Her allegations, in accordance with the grievance, grew to become a part of a wider investigation into Bohn’s conduct led by an out of doors regulation agency, Cozen O’Connor, employed by USC. The college advised athletics workers in March 2023 that the agency, which makes a speciality of instances of discrimination and harassment, merely was valuating the division’s tradition forward of its transfer to the Huge Ten Convention. However Bell Limbrick says Linda Hoos, USC’s vp and Title IX coordinator, advised her the identical day that the agency’s precise intent was to analyze complaints and experiences of misconduct by Bohn, together with her personal.

USC by no means shared the outcomes of that investigation. Then, in September 2023, 4 months after Bohn resigned, the college fired Bell Limbrick citing a “pattern of poor performance.” The choice shocked Bell Limbrick, who was the one member of an 11-member govt crew to lose her job and, in accordance with the grievance, had simply been awarded a “merit increase” on account of her “overall job performance.”

Bell Limbrick believes the timing of her firing, simply months after she voiced issues about Bohn, was no coincidence. She says her “upward trajectory was unlawfully stripped” and her profession has been “derailed” since, as she’s been unable to search out “substantially similar employment.”

Bell Limbrick labored at USC for 9 years, initially because the director of athletic compliance, earlier than Bohn was employed in 2019. Shortly after he grew to become athletic director, Bohn promoted Bell Limbrick to senior lady administrator, one of many highest-ranking positions within the division. In accordance with her grievance, she was one of many few Black girls to carry such a place at a significant American college.

However quickly after she realized that Bohn advised one in every of his shut staffers he supplied Bell Limbrick the place solely as a result of the division “needed a woman and some diversity, so [she] was a perfect fit.”

Bell Limbrick raised her issues about Bohn’s feedback to different officers. It was shortly after that, Bell Limbrick alleges, that Bohn started to retaliate towards her, excluding her from actions, stripping her of duties and refusing to satisfy together with her one on one. When the division returned to the workplace in July 2022, Bohn relegated Bell Limbrick to an workplace in Galen Middle, distant from different division officers.

The lawsuit particulars two teaching searches, one for USC’s girls’s volleyball coach and the opposite for USC’s girls’s basketball coach, during which Bell Limbrick says Bohn tried to undermine her work. She says Bohn prevented her from interviewing potential volleyball coaches as a part of a 2020 search, save for one Black feminine candidate, and throughout the 2021 search that landed girls’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb, Bell Limbrick says that Bohn, as a self-proclaimed “basketball guru,” took over the method. At one level, she says, he referred to as Bell Limbrick to emphasise that one of many finalists for the place, a White lady, had a husband who was Black.

It is a creating story. Please examine for updates.

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