Attorneys for former KSTP-TV meteorologist Wren Clair and the St. Paul-based TV station requested on Tuesday that a judge dismiss her lawsuit against her previous employer.
They filed a stipulation for dismissal with prejudice, meaning the lawsuit can’t be refiled.
Wren Clair (Courtesy of KARE-TV)
Clair, who filed the lawsuit on Aug. 12 under her legal name of Renee Fox, alleged sexual harassment and retaliation at KSTP. She said in the suit she was abruptly terminated after she reported the conduct.
KSTP, in a legal response filed in court on Aug. 13, said Fox was terminated “as a result of her poor performance, on which she was repeatedly coached.” The response also said she was not “subjected to sex-based harassment.”
Ramsey County District Court Judge Reynaldo Aligada Jr. referred the matter to mediation on Nov. 17, according to the court file. The file doesn’t indicate whether they went to mediation or what led to the joint request to dismiss the lawsuit.
“The matter has been resolved,” Fox’s attorney, Paul Schinner, said Tuesday. He said he couldn’t comment further.
Attorneys for KSTP could not immediately be reached Tuesday afternoon.
Kirk Varner, previously KSTP’s news director, said in a Tuesday statement: “While confident that I would have been able to defend myself against the allegations that were made, I am pleased that this matter has been resolved.”
Fox, who grew up in Hopkins and went to the University of Minnesota, was a morning show meteorologist in Boston, a top-10 market in the U.S. at the time. Her husband obtained a promotion that required a move back to Minneapolis and she was hired as a KSTP meteorologist in 2018.
After chief meteorologist Dave Dahl retired in 2020, Fox took over as the prime-time weekday evening meteorologist for “5 Eyewitness News.” She was demoted in 2024 and terminated in February, “but the sex-based disparate treatment and sexual harassment occurred throughout the entirety of her employment,” her lawsuit said.
Fox became a meteorologist for KARE-TV in May. She wrote on Sept. 3 on Instagram that she and the TV station “have agreed to part ways.”
“I thank all my colleagues for their professionalism and hard work,” Fox wrote. “I thank all the viewers for watching me and supporting me. I look forward to focusing more on my personal life and pursuing scientific careers outside of television.”
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