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(original post Oct 2, 2009) After being offered a post in Algiers, Foreign Service Officer Elizabeth Colton, who is a native Asheville, had the offer rescinded because she would turn 65 during the tour of duty — putting her over the mandatory retirement age.
“Imagine if someone told Hillary Clinton she couldn’t be secretary of state because she would turn 65 before her term is up,” said Thomas R. Bundy III, a lawyer representing Colton. [Clinton turns 65 in October 2012.]
Asheville Citizen-Times coverage: http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091002/COLUMNISTS/910020322/1004/ADVERTISING
Dec 24, 2009 update from Wall Street Journal: “The State Department filed its motion to dismiss a case challenging the U.S. Foreign Service’s mandatory retirement policy, arguing the age cutoff was a valid piece of Congressional decision making.” Originating source “Blog of LegalTimes: http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/12/state-department-seeks-to-dismiss-age-discrimination-suit.html
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Allgov.com coverage, with photo of Colton: “Elizabeth Colton got a late start on her diplomatic career. Up until 2000, married women were forbidden from joining the Foreign Service, which prevented Colton from signing up until the ban was lifted, at which point she was 54. Now, the former journalist is facing another arbitrary restriction that’s threatening to end her brief Foreign Service career. http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/Too_Old_for_Foreign_Service_91003 |
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AARP bulletin picked up the Colton story on Oct. 2 at: |
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An Oct. 9, 2009 op-ed in The Sacramento Bee asks: “In a department desperate for help, why is State forcing out one of its best?“The article is by Joel Brinkley is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times and now a professor of journalism at Stanford University. |
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