She says management warned her off HR - then made her ignoring that order cost her
A former director says her employer told her to steer clear of HR - and then made her pay for ignoring that.
Sherriee Detzler, who worked as a National Director at AccessLex Institute, has taken the legal-education organization to federal court, accusing it of age discrimination, a hostile work environment, and retaliation. Her complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on June 25, 2026.
According to the filing, Detzler joined AccessLex in March 2021 and was promoted to National Director the following June. She alleges that her treatment then diverged sharply from that of younger colleagues. She says she was judged against tougher standards, handed a territory "more than triple in size" that of another National Director two decades her junior, and subjected to policies "applied retroactively only to" her.
The complaint is built around a string of age-tinged remarks it attributes to named managers, referred to here by role. Detzler alleges a Vice President of Operations described her as "like an old dog with a bone." She says a Managing Director told colleagues on team calls, "We've got to get someone hired in your region before you have a heart attack at your age!" - and, when she pushed back, said, "You know I like to joke." She also alleges that a Managing Director remarked at a meeting that "anyone over 60 doesn't even know what a 'hyperlink' is!"
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