A high-ranking former official in USC’s athletic department has filed a lawsuit alleging that USC allowed former athletic director Mike Bohn to racially harass and discriminate against her, then fired her after she voiced concerns about Bohn’s conduct.
As USC’s senior woman administrator, Joyce Bell Limbrick was the highest-ranking female and Black official in USC’s athletic administration, as well as the only Black female administrator on the department’s executive team. But in a lawsuit, Bell Limbrick says that her once-promising career was irreparably changed when Bohn was hired to lead USC’s athletic department in 2019.
Bohn resigned in May 2023, a day after The Times asked him and USC about internal criticism of his management of the athletic department.