Mims

Appeal from a judgment denying appellant’s amended petition for a writ of mandate seeking to set aside respondent’s decision to terminate appellant’s employment.

Appellant was employed by respondent as a permanent classified employee in the position of custodian from November 1969 to February 1975. On February 24, 1975, she was suspended for various reasons as set forth in a statement of charges received by her. Her suspension was precipitated by a physical altercation between appellant and her supervisor on February 21, 1975, in which appellant was the aggressor. Under appellant’s version of the facts she received a notice of unsatisfactory service on or about March 1, 1975, and a statement of charges on or about March 12, 1975, informing her of her suspension from February 24, 1975, to March 20, 1975, and of her dismissal effective March 20, 1975. Appellant appealed her dismissal and a hearing on the appeal was heard before a hearing officer of respondent’s personnel commission in May 1975. The hearing officer rendered a proposed decision upholding appellant’s dismissal, and in July 1975, respondent’s personnel commission adopted the proposed decision. On September 27,…