Jane Meyer, a former University of Iowa senior associate athletics director, continues legal conflict with school officials over her December 2014 job reassignment and subsequent termination, contending that her First Amendment and Title IX rights were violated.

Meyer filed a federal lawsuit against the UI, the state Board of Regents, and the state of Iowa on Dec. 23. This is the second  suit she has filed. Meyer’s initial lawsuit, claiming she was the subject of wage discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation while working in the UI Athletics Department, was introduced over a year ago.

Meyer was removed from her position as the UI senior associate athletics director in December 2014.

The job that she was later reassigned entailed coordinating the move into the new Visual Arts Building and the Voxman Music Building. Meyer was then terminated on Sept. 9 from that position after receiving formal notification in June that the UI would be eliminating her position once the moves were finished.

In her newest lawsuit, Meyer asserts that the UI violated her First Amendment right to associate with her partner, former UI head field hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum, who was fired in August 2014.

Griesbaum voiced concerns about discrimination and gender bias within the UI Athletics Department. She later sued the UI, the regents, and the state for wrongful termination.

In her lawsuit, Meyer’s alleges that the UI violated her First Amendment rights by reassigning and terminating her as a direct result of the allegations made by Griesbaum.

The lawsuit also contends the UI’s reassignment and termination of Meyer violated her Title IX rights to raise concerns about gender inequity, which included voicing opposition to Griesbaum’s dismissal.

In an email to The Daily Iowan, UI spokeswoman Jeneane Beck said the UI had not been served with the new lawsuit in federal court as of Wednesday. Beck then directed attention to a statement previously released by the UI, which maintains Meyer’s job reassignment and termination were not acts of retaliation.

Griesbaum’s trial is set for June 5, 2017, and the trial concerning Meyer’s first lawsuit will be held April 17, 2017.

— Molly Hunter