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By Mary Beth Martin
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
In October the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found Rappahannock County “more likely than not” guilty of sexual discrimination by hiring a lesserqualified man instead of a better-qualified woman for the position of county animal warden.
Lisa Marie Reid, 38, who filed the complaint in March 1997, said she was twice passed over the job, once in 1995 and again in 1997.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke said the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors and John McCarthy, county administrator, did nothing illegal or improper.
“Our position is that we hired the best person for the ] job and we followed the necessary procedures to do it. This | woman’s sex had absolutely i nothing to with it. We’re not | paying anything,” he said.
A woman has never held the position of animal warden in Rappahannock County, although women frequently hold the position in many counties and cities in the state.
Since the defendant in this case is a government agency, Reid said the E.E.O.C. told her they would not prosecute but would refer the case to the Justice Department.
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