Ledbetter speaking at an AFL-CIO event in Pittsburgh, October 9,
2008 April 18, 1938 |Occupation||Overnight supervisor at
Goodyear| |Known for||Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 |Spouse(s)||Charles
Ledbetter (m. 1956–2009)| Lilly Ledbetter (born Lilly McDaniel;
April 18, 1938) was the plaintiff in the American employment
discrimination case Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. She
has since become a women's equality activist. Personal life
Ledbetter was born Lilly McDaniel in Jacksonville, Alabama and
graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1956. Her father J.
C. McDaniel was a mechanic at the Anniston Army Depot. After
graduating from high school, Lilly McDaniel married Charles
Ledbetter; they had two children and remained married until
Charles's death in 2009. In 1968, Lilly Ledbetter passed the H&R
Block tax preparation exam and became an associate with H&R
Block. Around the mid-1970s, Ledbetter later became an office
manager at an accounting firm in Gadsde