Lilly Lynn McDaniel Ledbetter (April 14, 1938 – October 12, 2024) was an American activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. [1] regarding employment discrimination.

Apr 10, 2025 · Lilly Ledbetter was an American activist whose equal-pay lawsuit against the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company led to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which ensured that women have fair and effective recourse against employers who discriminate against them.

Oct 14, 2024 · Lilly Ledbetter, a women's equality activist whose fight for pay equity led to passage of the monumental Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, died Saturday. She was 86.

Lilly Ledbetter, a former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86.

Oct 13, 2024 · Lilly Ledbetter, whose gender pay equity legal fight was the inspiration for the Fair Pay Act of 2009, has died at age 86. Ledbetter died of respiratory failure, her family said in a...

Oct 14, 2024 · Ms. Ledbetter, who became a national symbol of unequal treatment of women in the workplace and a hero to many for her yearslong persistence in fighting against the status quo in court, in...

Oct 14, 2024 · Lilly Ledbetter, whose name graces an equal pay law in the US, has died aged 86. CBS, the BBC's news partner in the US, quoted her children as saying she died peacefully on Saturday surrounded by...

For more than a decade, Lilly Ledbetter fought to achieve pay equity. It was in Alabama, where Ledbetter was born and raised, that she began a crusade that would eventually lead her all the way to the nation’s capital.

Oct 14, 2024 · Lilly Ledbetter, Goodyear manager-turned-activist who fought for genders’ equal pay, died October 12, 2024 of respiratory failure.

3 days ago · JACKSONVILLE – Lilly Ledbetter was a poor child growing up in the Possum Trot community north of Jacksonville. Despite her oft-drunken father and her downtrodden mother, she graduated from high