Nadiya Williams-Boldware, a Denton County assistant district attorney who was harassed on the job because of her race, has won $510,000 in damages from the county to compensate her for a “hostile work environment.”
In its June 21 verdict, the jury in U.S. District Judge Ron Clark’s Eastern District of Texas court found that Denton County Assistant Criminal District Attorney Nadiya Williams-Boldware was harassed because of her race; the harassment was “so sufficiently severe or pervasive as to effect a term, condition, or privilege” of her employment; Denton County knew, or should have known, that she was being harassed because of her race; and Denton County failed to take prompt remedial action. In December 2009, Williams-Boldware, then a prosecutor in the misdemeanor trial division, filed a federal complaint against Denton County, the Office of the Denton County Criminal District Attorney, and prosecutors Cary Piel, Susan Piel and Ryan Calvert over incidents she alleged occurred earlier that year. Thomas Brandt, a director in Dallas’ Fanning Harper Martinson Brandt & Kutchin, represented all the defendants. [See "Denton County Prosecutor Alleges Racial Harassment, Discrimination," Texas Lawyer, Dec. 14, 2009, Page 1.]
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