She reported the shove the same day. The filing says no one from HR followed up
A 24-year veteran of Archer Daniels Midland says the agribusiness ignored a workplace shove, then pushed her out, then sabotaged her shot at a fresh start.
Reyna Medina spent more than two decades climbing the ranks at ADM before her August 2021 promotion to Quality Food Safety Manager at the company's Lubbock, Texas plant. According to a lawsuit filed April 27, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Medina v. Archer Daniels Midland Co., No. 5:26-cv-00091), the promotion is also when her professional life began to unravel.
The promotion left her as the only woman among six male managers at the plant, the filing states, and coincided with the arrival of a new plant manager. Medina alleges that during management meetings he stared at her chest rather than her eyes, while male peers spoke over her so consistently that she began raising her hand just to be heard.
The disparate treatment, she says, extended to the basics of daily work. Male colleagues could call in at-will or shut down their departments without issue, the filing states, while she was required to submit formal PTO requests and was admonished for trying to swap a national holiday for an equivalent day off. She says she routinely worked ten- to twelve-hour days, weekends, and even vacations without additional pay.
When Medina raised concerns in a January 2022 management meeting, the lawsuit says the plant...
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