The Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings provides a critical function to our state. The SOAH provides administrative judges in cases involving certifications and licenses for doctors, police officers and others. It is essential that the SOAH judges appear to be impartial for the process to work. But, recently, the SOAH process broke down completely.

For federal employees, they have a different process to trial. A federal employee can file a verbal complaint with his/her local EEO office. The employee must make that initial contact within 45 days of the last act of discrimination. When that process is completed, the federal employee then has 15 days to submit a written