An attorney for one of the Baylor athletic department employees who was fired in the wake of the Pepper Hamilton investigation of the sexual assault scandal that engulfed the school’s football program is asking a district judge to order some Baylor Board of Regents members to submit to depositions.

Tom Hill was among the unnamed administration and athletics program employees whom regents said they fired on May 26 when they reassigned President and Chancellor Ken Starr, suspended head coach Art Briles with intent to terminate and put Athletic Director Ian McCaw on probation.

Starr has since stepped down as chancellor, McCaw has since resigned and Briles has reached a settlement with the school.

Hill’s attorneys filed the petition in a Dallas state district court on Thursday, asking a judge to order three board members to submit to legal depositions concerning Hill’s dismissal and other issues with the report and actions the board took in the wake of the Pepper Hamilton investigation.

Hill, who was assistant athletic director when he was fired, had worked at Baylor for 15 years.

He oversaw the school’s athletic facilities and also had administrative duties with Baylor’s track and field program.

“I am not part of a cover up," he said Thursday.

"I had the best job at Baylor University bar none. Since my beginning, there wasn’t a single day I did not look forward to coming to work," he said.

“I am not angry, I am disappointed and I am frustrated. I want the light to shine and there to be transparency. I want the facts of the case to come out.”

Under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, the judge can order regents Ronald D. Murff, Mark E. Lovvron and David H. Harper to submit to the depositions and can require them to produce certain documents and records that could shed light on why Hill and others were dismissed, on what actions the board took and other details about the issues in question.

In the summary of the petition that was filed in Dallas County Thursday morning, attorney Clouse “Rogge” Dunn writes that Baylor “rushed to judgment” and “fired Hill, even though Hill did nothing wrong regarding the sexual assaults that occurred at Baylor.”

“Hill is yet another – and unnecessary victim – of this controversy,” Dunn says.

The petition says Hill wants to investigate the reasons behind his dismissal but currently does not anticipate filing a formal lawsuit.

The issue was filed in Dallas County because all of the regents it seeks to depose live in Dallas.

The issue at hand revolves primarily around Hill’s dismissal, but disclosure of the documents Dunn is requesting and the information that might be contained in the individual depositions could provide additional details about the findings of the Pepper Hamilton investigation and the board’s response to them.

On May 26, Baylor released a 13-page document summarizing Pepper Hamilton’s findings, but has declined to release specifics.

The university so far has hidden behind its “private entity” wall, but an order from a Texas district judge that falls in favor of the petition provides that the privacy claim has no bearing.

“Permitting the requested depositions benefits all concerned because it will likely clear up any misunderstandings or inaccurate perceptions,” Dunn points out in the petition.

The petition asks for any reports, including the Pepper Hamilton report, regarding assaults, batteries or wrongdoings committed by Baylor athletes against other Baylor students.

It also asks for records of any discussions regents had regarding the issue and any discussions the regents had about any wrongdoing by Baylor athletes.

The petition says the subjects of the request, that is those Dunn seeks to depose, “possess unique and superior knowledge of such subjects and issues” and because of that they should be ordered to submit to depositions.

“Deponents have unique, if not exclusive, knowledge of the facts and circumstances regarding the issues and questions noted herein that is not obtainable from other sources,” the petition says.

Dunn said Thursday he expects the issue to be in a district court within about 30 days.

“Everybody, the public, the students, the alumni and the employees and executives like Mr. Hill are deserving of the truth," he said Thursday.

"That is all Mr. Hil is seeking is the truth and Baylor shouldn’t hide the truth, Baylor shouldn’t run from the truth. The truth is what it is.”

(Madison Adams contributed to this story)