Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 29, 1992                   TAG: 9203290127
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: STUART                                LENGTH: Short

PATRICK MUST PAY $76,010 IN BIAS SUIT

The U.S. Justice Department had charged that Doris Scales of Ararat and Kathy Sheppard of Myrtle Beach, S.C., were denied jobs because they are women.

The government showed that former Sheriff Jesse Williams hired only men to fill deputy positions during his administration. The suit also claimed that Sheriff Jay Gregory, who defeated Williams in 1983, hired only male deputies.

Scales had applied for any position with the Sheriff's Department, but was not hired.

Sheppard was a civil-process server under Williams. Gregory abolished that position when he took office in 1984 and did not reappoint her.

U.S. District Judge Jackson Kiser ordered Thursday that Scales get $50,302 in back pay plus interest, and that she be hired to the next job that becomes available in the department.

Kiser ordered that the department pay Sheppard, who no longer wants the job, $25,708 plus interest.

- Associated Press