Clay County Development Corporation director Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who described Michelle Obama as "ape in heels" on her Facebook post last November, was fired four days after she returned to work.
"It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified first lady back in the White House. I'm tired of seeing an ape in heels," she wrote.
The message went viral, and Taylor resigned shortly after many called for her resignation.
Her racist post also had consequences for Clay Mayor Beverly Whaling, who 'liked' it, and added the comment 'Just made my day Pam'.
She resigned from her position on November 16.
The post was deleted, but not before it was shared hundreds of times on social media. An online petition was created calls for the dismissal of both officials received more than 200,000 signatures.
Taylor, who wrote the status after Donald Trump won the election was initially set for suspension on December 23, but Governor Earl Ray Tomblin's office announced that she had been fired on Tuesday, according to Daily Mail UK.
She resigned in November but was reinstated last month, prompting West Virginia to review its contracts with the non-profit, according to Reuters.
Democratic Governor Earl Ray Tomblin's office said the state had secured an agreement under which the Appalachian Area Agency on Aging will manage the CCDC for six months.
"Following the state's request for specific assurances that the CCDC is following anti-discrimination policies, we have been assured that Pamela Taylor has been removed from her position as CCDC director," Tomblin's office said in a statement.
The nonprofit in Clay, West Virginia, a small town about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Charleston, the state capital, receives state and federal funding. It received about $1.5 million in federal funding and $363,000 in state funding in 2014.
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