David Ralph Jubb, a longtime member of Linfield College’s board of trustees, is accused of sexually abusing four different students in 2017 and 2019, including a student trustee last year.
Jubb, through his defense lawyer Stephen Houze, entered not guilty pleas by phone to an eight-count indictment unsealed Wednesday in Yamhill County Circuit Court.
Jubb, 71, is accused of one count of first-degree sexual abuse, which alleges he subjected undergraduate student trustee AnnaMarie Motis to forcible sexual contact on Feb. 15, 2019 after the two were leaving a faculty-trustee dinner.
He’s also accused of seven counts of third-degree sexual abuse involving three other alleged victims.
The indictment says he subjected the three other women to sexual contact, by touching either their buttocks, groin or tongue, on May 5, 2017, which was the day of the college’s annual Symposium Day, a celebration of senior scholarship and academic achievement followed by a senior awards dinner, according to a college calendar.
Motis, who was a student representative on the college board of trustees, alleges in a separate pending federal civil lawsuit that Jubb put his hands up her dress twice on the evening of Feb. 15, 2019, and touched her buttocks and genitalia. The Oregonian/OregonLive generally doesn’t identify alleged victims of sexual abuse but Motis said she wanted to be named after filing the suit.
Jubb resigned as a board trustee last June. He’s a 1971 Linfield College graduate and had served on the board since 1994, chairing its financial affairs committee, according to a college magazine. He’s a retired partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers and served on the board of The Reser Family Foundation.
On Wednesday, Yamhill County Circuit Judge Ladd J. Wiles ordered Jubb to not drink any alcohol, after a prosecutor noted that at least one of the alleged abuse encounters occurred when Jubb was intoxicated.
The judge also ordered Jubb not to have any contact with any of the alleged victims, who were identified in the indictment by their initials.
Jubb was directed to schedule a booking photo and fingerprints in the next 10 days. He’ll remain out of custody and be allowed to live at his home in Vancouver. He posted 10 percent, or $10,000, of his $100,000 bail and is set to return to court July 2.
Motis was a student representative on the board when she attended a faculty-trustees dinner last year at Michelbook Country Club after a board meeting. After the dinner, Jubb grabbed her and pulled her body to his in the foyer of the club as they waited for a ride to join other trustees at a bar, Motis said. When she objected, Jubb reached under her skirt and grabbed her bare buttocks, her suit alleges.
At the bar, she sat across from Jubb and he “aggressively bumped” her legs under the table, according to the suit. She moved her chair, but Jubb pulled it closer to him, “then thrust his hand” under her dress and touched her genitalia, the suit says.
Motis reported Jubb’s behavior to the college board’s chair, David Baca, and to the college within a week and made a police report in March 2019, her lawyers said.
This past February, Motis’ civil claims against Linfield College were dismissed under a joint agreement, according to court records. The college reportedly paid $500,000 to the student in a settlement.
The suit alleged the college was aware of a prior allegation of sexual harassment involving Jubb but failed to investigate.
The college initially responded to Motis’ suit by alleging that any injury to Motis was the sole fault of a “third-party,” according to court records.
After a story ran last year in The Oregonian/OregonLive about the civil suit against Jubb, Linfield faculty, students and alumni drafted and distributed a petition calling for the resignation of Baca, saying he failed to protect students and failed to inform the college community about the real reasons that led to Jubb’s resignation. The petition has been signed by 84 people.
Baca had written to board trustees last year that Jubb was resigning “due to health concerns” and praised Jubb’s contributions.
Chrissy Bassler, a Linfield alumnus who graduated from the college in 1988, said she was disturbed to learn in an email from the college president last week that Baca was re-elected as chair of the college’s board of trustees and will serve another three year term.
“He never did anything with the allegations against David Jubb by other Linfield students previous to AnnaMarie Motis coming forward,” Bassler said.
Baca, she said, did nothing to look into prior allegations made against Jubb by at least one other student, and Jubb only resigned after Motis filed a lawsuit against the college. “Now Baca’s been reelected?”
According to Linfield College’s lawyer Paula A. Barran, when Motis informed board chair Baca of the allegations, he asked Motis for “her input on her thoughts whether the college should remove Mr. Jubb from the Board,” told Jubb he was not to attend the May board meeting and asked Jubb for his resignation. Baca also asked Motis what she needed in terms of support, and the college’s Title IX sexual harassment complaint coordinator talked to Motis about her options to go to the police or have the college investigate Barran wrote in a court filing.
