The Dublin City Board of Education says it was aware of litigation filed against DeMarcos Holland, which was later dismissed, before choosing him as the top candidate to be Dublin’s new school superintendent.
The whistleblower lawsuit was filed in 2024 by the director of the Marietta City Schools’ Student Life Center claiming race discrimination by the Marietta district and Holland, its chief human resources officer. The lawsuit was dropped last November but refiled earlier this year, but with Holland no longer named as a defendant.
The Dublin school board last week approved Holland as the sole finalist for the superintendent job…