Arboretum CEO resigns
Mary Brinegar, president and CEO of the Dallas Arboretum, has resigned. After months of protests and employment discrimination lawsuits filed against the facility, the target of those demonstrations has submitted her retirement letter.
Protests began in April and continued every other weekend through June. In January, a former employee of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc.
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 represented the employee. In June, Lambda Legal filed an EEOC complaint against Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society, Inc.
