Ahmed V. Metropolitan Government Of Nashville And Davidson County, Tennessee

Case Background

On March 20, 2020, Karen Hunt Ahmed filed an employment discrimination suit against the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, alleging infringement of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967("ADEA"). This case was filed at the United States District Court, Tennessee Middle (Nashville). This case was assigned to Chief Judge William L. Campbell, Jr and referred to Magistrate Judge Jeffery S. Frensley. [Case number: 3:20cv242]

Cause

On December 28, 2017, Plaintiff Karen Hunt Ahmed (Ahmed) contacted the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (“MNPD”) to explore a career as a police officer. At that time, she lived in Oak Park, Illinois, where she had worked for ten years as a social sciences professor and high school teacher. Ahmed completed a nine-month application process and joined the MNPD Training Academy as a police officer trainee on October 16, 2018, at age 51. She relocated from Oak Park, Illinois to Nashville, Tennessee on October 11, 2018, to start her new career. On her first training day, October 16, 2018, Ms. Ahmed and 75 classmates received paperwork and instructions and completed a physical fitness test. She met or exceeded the graduation standards in push-ups, sit-ups, and running.

On October 17, 2018, Ahmed arrived for the sec