AUBURN — A local woman who sued Bates College, alleging discrimination during her brief time working as the college president’s executive assistant, has settled her suit.

According to court papers, Sarah Hulbert, who was 59 when she filed her civil complaint in Androscoggin County Superior Court in March, met with a mediator and the college’s chief financial officer at an October alternative dispute resolution conference and came to agreement.

Both parties signed the suit’s dismissal last month. No details about the settlement were disclosed publicly. 

Hulbert was seeking back pay, reinstatement or front pay, compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorney’s fees and other costs and interests.

Hulbert charged sex and disability discrimination, claiming she was “intentionally” treated differently from her male co-workers, which she said was a violation of the Maine Human Rights Act.

Hulbert worked in that job from June 1, 2012, until July 11, 2012, when she was terminated, according to court papers.

She wrote in her complaint that the activities in which she was expected to engage, including watching so-called “chick flicks” on Friday nights with college President A. Clayton Spencer, were not required of Hulbert’s male colleagues.

Hulbert was also told she’d be expected to jog and take tennis lessons with the president, according to the lawsuit.

She told Spencer she couldn’t run, due to prior foot surgery. Hulbert offered to find a substitute, but Spencer “expressed significant disappointment,” and “left me feeling pressured to run with her if I wished to continue working for her,” according to Hulbert’s complaint.

She told Spencer that she would “reluctantly” try to take tennis lessons with her, but had already said she only engaged in “no-impact” activity because of her foot surgery.

When Spencer fired Hulbert, Spencer told Hulbert she lacked “pizazz,” according to court papers.

A human resources officer told Hulbert that if Spencer had “discarded” her, then “no one else will wish to take you” on in any other job there at the college, Hulbert wrote in her complaint. For that reason, she wrote, Bates had “ratified the gender and disability-based discrimination of its president in refusing to consider me for any other open position with the college.”

A spokesman for the college had said the school “strongly disagrees” with the allegations in Hulbert’s complaint and intended to defend itself in court.