 Lilly Ledbetter

Lilly Ledbetter (born Lilly McDaniel; April 14, 1938) is an American woman who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case "Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co." regarding employment discrimination.Two years after the Supreme Court decided that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not allow employers to be sued for pay discrimination more than 180 days after an employee's first paycheck, the United States Congress passed a fair pay act in her name to remedy this issue, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.