By: dmc-admin//July 9, 2001//
“It is undisputed that the job posting required the applicant to hold one of several specific types of bachelor’s degrees: Education, Recreation or Social Work. Schaffner does not hold such a degree; rather, she had a bachelor’s degree in English. It is also undisputed that the candidate that the Park District chose to hire, Anderson, had a bachelor’s degree in Recreation. Because Schaffner does not possess one of the required degrees for the position to which she sought to be promoted, she was not qualified for the position and she thus has failed to establish a prima facie case of discrimination.”
Affirmed.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Gettleman, J., Manion, J.