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Argued September 21, 2010

Before BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY and OBERLY, Associate Judges, and RUIZ, Associate Judge, Retired.*fn1

This appeal arises from a protracted administrative dispute between appellee, Deborah J. Bryant, and her former employer, the District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DOC), regarding allegations of sexual and racial discrimination. In 1992, the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights (OHR) first determined that the DOC had discriminated against appellee in violation of the District of Columbia Human Rights Act (DCHRA), D.C. Code § 2-1401.01 et seq. (2001). Over the next seventeen years, the matter worked its way through the administrative process, culminating in the Superior Court’s February 2009 order awarding appellee back pay with interest. On appeal, both DOC and OHR challenge the Superior Court’s award of interest on appellee’s back pay award. We hold that OHR has authority to award interest on back pay awards and affirm the judgment of the Superior Court remanding the matter to OHR for reconsideration of appellee’s request for interest, in light of the circumstances of the case, recognizing and exercising its authority to award such interest.

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