HOT SPRINGS -- The federal lawsuit the new executive director of the Hot Springs Housing Authority filed against her former employer was considered prior to her hiring, the chairwoman of the board that oversees the Hot Springs agency said.
Joyce Craft said the resume Nadine Jarmon has built over two decades in public housing recommended her to the Hot Springs Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. Jarmon is suing the Little Rock Housing Authority board, claiming her August 2021 termination was the result of a letter she sent the director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Little Rock field office and the Little Rock mayor in June of that year.
The letter was included in the complaint Jarmon filed under the Whistleblower Act in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in October 2021. It alleges mismanagement of federal funds and agency resources, abuse of power and violations of the board's code of ethics. She's seeking compensatory and punitive damages. A jury trial has been scheduled for June.
"We knew we would be in a precarious position if we offered Dr. Jarmon the job," Craft said in a written statement to The Sentinel-Record. "But we also felt that with a stellar career in public housing for over 20 years, and who had the integrity to report alleged unethical behavior or wrongdoing risking her own career, [she] was one we should take a serious look at for the position of executive director.
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