Georgia Public Defender to Face Lawyer’s Race, Pay Bias Lawsuit

Columbus, Ga.'s Chattahoochee Circuit Public Defender’s Office and its top attorney failed to dislodge a Black female lawyer’s claims that race and gender bias has caused her to be underpaid and denied promotion opportunities.

Nancy Miller sufficiently alleges public defender T. Moffett Flournoy and the office violated the Equal Protection Clause, 42 U.S.C. §1981, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the Equal Pay Act, the US District Court for the Middle District of Georgia said Tuesday. Miller asserts she was paid less than White male colleagues even though they all shared same rank and duties, and that ...