She lent an employee $5,000 out of pocket - the bank allegedly called it misconduct
A 22-year Army veteran alleges JPMorgan Chase fired her based on race and sex - then replaced her with a white man.
The worker, an African-American woman who retired from the Army as a captain before joining the bank in 2016, filed a federal discrimination lawsuit on September 22, 2026, in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
According to the complaint, she spent more than nine years at JPMorgan Chase and was promoted in 2021 to executive director of the bank's Incident Management unit, where she oversaw roughly 50 to 60 employees handling technology incidents around the clock. Among other things, the filing says she led the bank's response to the CrowdStrike software outage in July 2024, which disrupted operations across the company.
Her performance reviews were strong. The complaint alleges her supervisor rated her work "Strong" in both 2023 and 2024, writing that she "is very rounded and respected by all the [line of business] teams" and "always leads from the front." In 2022, she received the Women's Bond Club Rising Star award from the bank.
Then a subordinate she had helped terminate made a complaint.
The filing alleges that after being informed her role was being eliminated in April 2025, the subordinate accused the worker of having coerced a newly hired employee back in 2023 into handing over part of his relocation assistance funds as "payment for hiring him."
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