Mueller

Mueller stands as a music teacher in young Jed Bartlet's high school flashback, her $200 yearly stipend for directing choir and band slashed in half compared to male coach Mr. Ryan's $400 for crew. Mrs. Landingham brandishes this disparity like a blade, slashing through Jed's defenses to ignite his crusade against gender pay inequities under his principal father's watch. Offstage yet pivotal, Mueller embodies frontline educators ensnared in systemic bias, her unseen labor propelling Bartlet's moral origin story and foreshadowing his adult presidency's fierce equity battles amid personal tempests.