Opinion ID: 2750728
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Heading: Post-Charge District Manager Promotion

Text: On September 13, 2011, after Holmes filed his EEOC charge, a third District Manager promotion occurred. Specifically, Roderick Chambers, a black male Senior Officer was promoted to District Manager in the Montgomery field office. The record does not reflect whether Holmes appeared on the register for this District Manager position. In a subsequent letter to the EEOC, Holmes cited the Board’s failure to promote him to Chambers’s District Manager position as another example of his employer promoting a “younger, less educated, and less experienced” candidate than Holmes. 10 Case: 14-11330 Date Filed: 11/13/2014 Page: 11 of 22 After the EEOC issued a right to sue letter, Holmes filed this action in the district court. The district court granted the Board’s summary judgment motion with respect to both the Senior Officer and District Manager failure-to-promote claims. As to the Senior Officer claims, the district court concluded that Holmes failed to present evidence establishing his prima facie case. As to the District Manager claims, the district court found that Holmes claimed only age discrimination in the EEOC and that his race and gender discrimination claims were “beyond the scope of the EEOC charge.”