A local attorney says they are waiting on a response from a Washington County judge regarding a lawsuit filed against him alleging that he fired an employee in a retaliatory move after she raised concerns about some of the decisions he made regarding defendants who appeared before him. Attorney Noah Geary says his client, Elizabeth Sullivan, filed the lawsuit this week against Washington County Judge John DiSalle and former court administrator Patrick Grimm, accusing them of eliminating her job overseeing DiSalle’s problem-solving court two years ago, when she told judicial officials that DiSalle denied many veterans in the specialty court, the right to have an attorney present and even sentenced some to serve jail time. Geary says DiSalle and Grimm have twenty days to respond to the suit. Geary says Sullivan took her concerns to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC) who said they found the allegations credible and they had taken appropriate action. Geary claims that shortly after that notification, DiSalle announced that he was stepping down as President Judge, but would remain a judge. The suit claims that the AOPC directed DiSalle to step down from the President Judge’s position. The suit seeks sizeable compensation and a return of Sullivan to a job at the county. Calls to Judge DiSalle have not been returned and Grimm no longer works for the county.