 In 2016, Herzig, then a Dallas police officer, had filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the city claiming more than a million dollars in damages, which was dismissed by a trial court. An appellate court subsequently affirmed the decision and denied her a rehearing in 2022 after her assault of a superior officer, Ronald Kessler, a former Washington Post reporter who has written extensively on the Secret Service, claimed her failed lawsuit should have disqualified her from being hired for the agency because her record wasn't pristine.