A Former Western Kentucky University Student’s Discrimination Lawsuit Is Dismissed
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former Western Kentucky University student who alleged that she was subject to racial discrimination and sexual harassment from a now-retired professor.
U.S. District Judge Court David Hale ruled that the statute of limitations had already run out on Jada Jefferson’s claims by the time she filed her lawsuit last year.
Jefferson, a Black student who graduated from WKU in 2019, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court that named as defendants the university, current WKU President Timothy Caboni and his predecessor, Gary Ransdell, former WKU theatre professor Scott Stroot, professor Michelle Dvoskin, former dean of Potter College of Arts and Letters David Lee, theatre and dance department head David Young and one-time WKU Title IX coordinator Andrea Anderson.
