Lambda Legal Senior Staff Attorney Shelly Skeen Former employee files discrimination complaint against Dallas Arboretum Tammye Nash | Managing Editornash@dallasvoice.com A former employee of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc.
has filed complaints with both the EEOC and the city of Dallas Office of Fair Housing and Human Rights, saying that their former bosses discriminated against them based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and mental and physical disabilities.
Lambda Legal is representing the individual, who has asked not to have their name published publicly. They will be identified here as the client for purposes of clarity.
Dallas Voice contacted the Arboretum via email for comment but had not heard back as of press deadline. According to the complaint submitted to the EEOC on Nov.