From the excerpt, you can’t tell if she is the good guy fighting for accurate results and fought by her bosses or if she is the bad guy repelling the board that wanted good results.
result of losing respect for her superiors and their failure to support her during times of attack and criticism.
what was she being criticized for? This is key.
I noticed that too. So I looked up her political donations on opensecrets.org.
Looks like she made 2 donations to 1 Republican candidate, and she’s from a pretty heavily Republican area. But there is also a donation under the same name earlier in California to a Democratic Senatorial candidates fund. So I guess that could be her as well, if she is a transplant:
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=geraldine+roll