The city has agreed to pay $1 million to a toxicologist who claimed she was fired by the Medical Examiner’s Office for speaking out against its use of a controversial DNA test.

Marina Stajic was a 29-year veteran of the office when she was fired in 2015.

Stajic, also a member of a state commission on forensic science, alleged in an age-discrimination suit filed in Manhattan federal court that she was given the boot for casting a vote on the commission for the OCME to release reports on the validity of the procedure. The test deals with tiny amounts of mixed DNA from crime scenes.

E-mails obtained from the OCME showed that officials there were less than pleased about her vote.

“She sucks,” said Mimi Mairs, then-OCME special counsel, in an e-mail sent hours after Stajic’s commission vote.

The effort to compel the OCME to release its studies on the testing method was led by Barry Scheck, who co-founded the Innocence Project, a non-profit dedicated to exonerating the wrongly convicted, and who also served on the Forensic Science Commission.

“No government employee should lose a job for standing up for honesty and sound science, but this was particularly hurtful for me because I had devoted nearly my entire career to serving the people of New York City and New York State,” Stajic said in a news release.

Nick Paolucci, a spokesman for the city’s Law Department, said the OCME’s decision to fire Stajic was “justified and appropriate.”

“However, based upon our legal assessment of the case, we determined that a settlement was in the best interest of the city.”