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Richmond and Washington. Since the county government is the defendant, she said the American Civil Liberties Union might consider her case.
Reid, who worked as a veterinary assistant for five years, worked with the Rappahannock Animal Welfare League since 1989, as well as serving as president from 1993 to 1996.
Numerous times she said she sought funding for the animal shelter at tne budget hearings with the board of supervisors.
In 1995 she applied for the job of animal warden and was interviewed. Later, McCarthy telephoned to tell her that she was their second choice, and the job went to James Leake. His experience included 30 years in sales and none with animals other than farm animals, McCarthy said.
Reid worked as an office manager for The Buyer’s Agency in the Town of Washington in 1995 and in 1996 became the manager of the shelter and adoption coordinator, a job she kept for over a year. Besides running the shelter, she said she worked with the county schools to educate the children about animals.
When the animal warden job became available in February 1997, she applied again along with 13 men and six other women applicants, but she was not one of the five men and one woman interviewed by board of supervisors members Pete Estes and Robert Anderson.
Shortly after she applied for job again, she said she read
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