Chey Davis v. Delta College

Type

Opinion

Per curiam

Yes — no individual author

Filed

Feb. 12, 2025

Case

Chey Davis v. Delta College

Case status

Decided

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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0081n.06 No. 24-1092 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Feb 12, 2025 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) CHEY DAVIS, ) ) Plaintiff-Appellant, ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT ) v. COURT FOR THE EASTERN ) DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN DELTA COLLEGE; JEAN GOODNOW, ) ) Defendants-Appellees. OPINION ) ) Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; LARSEN and MURPHY, Circuit Judges. LARSEN, Circuit Judge. Chey Davis taught English at Delta College. In 2019, Delta’s then-president, Jean Goodnow, denied Davis a promotion to full professor. After Goodnow retired, Delta’s new president, Michael Gavin, retroactively promoted Davis to full professor with backpay. Soon thereafter, Davis quit teaching and sued Goodnow and the school, claiming that the original promotion denial had been based on her race and her support for unionizing Delta’s faculty. The district court awarded Delta and Goodnow summary judgment, and Davis appealed. For the following reasons, we AFFIRM the district court’s grant of summary judgment. I. From 2007 until August 2022, Chey Davis, a black woman, taught English at Delta College, a community college with several campuses i…

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