Caitlyn Clark had just received a raise and an offer to extend her two-year clerkship with a federal judge in her hometown in Georgia in January 2020 when she disclosed she was pregnant. That’s when she said the judge’s longtime career clerk became highly critical of her work — at one point expressing exasperation that Clark’s planned maternity leave would add to her workload. The judge himself suggested Clark did not have the “intensity” for the job.
The details of Clark’s pregnancy discrimination and harassment claims, which she pursued for the next year, were laid out in an internal court investigation obtained by The Washington Post. Clark’s account will be spotlighted Thursday by a congressional committee scrutinizing gaps in the judiciary’s reporting system and exploring additional workplace protections for court employees, who lack the same rights afforded other government and private-sector workers.
“I need to fix this for everyone, for the people who come after me, for my daughters,” Clark said in an interview. “I’ve done all this work and I’m not going to get anything out of it, but I can make sure it doesn’t happen again or at least try.”
Clark has appealed an initial decision rejecting her claims and clearing the judge, C. Ashley Royal of the Middle District of Georgia, of misconduct. A separate complaint filed last summer with the court’s governing council is pending.
Royal declined to respond to Clark’s claims and questions from The Post, saying in an email...
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