Older, Female Ex-FBI Deputy General Counsel Gets Job Bias Trial

Former FBI general counsel James Baker allegedly harbored bias against older women that may have driven decisions to eliminate a female deputy general counsel’s position and demote her from the senior executive service ranks, a D.C. federal judge ruled.

Marciann Grzadzinski’s evidence is in some ways speculative and doubtful, but it could convince a jury the FBI’s structural and other explanations for its decisions were a pretext for sex, age, or sex-plus-age discrimination, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said Tuesday. It includes Grzadzinski’s own testimony and that of other women who worked under Baker, the court ...