Fair-pay activist Lilly Ledbetter (center), a native of Jacksonville, Calhoun County, watches Pres. Barack Obama sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 at the White House on January 29, 2009. Also pictured are Washington senator Patty Murray, Maryland senators Steny Hoyer (back, second from left) and Barbara Mikulski (front left), and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (behind Ledbetter) of Washington, D.C.
