Nikki Moody and her counsel were in the process of trying to solve her quarrels with Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly for nearly a year before filing a racial discrimination lawsuit on Friday.
Moody first filed charges of education discrimination against Fennelly, the university and the state with the Civil Rights Commission on May 15, 2015, less than a week after she walked in the ISU undergraduate commencement at Hilton Coliseum.
That is just the first step for a complaint that’s filed, according to Kristin Johnson of the Civil Rights Commission. The process from there tends to be very time-consuming.