Mary Wood

A UVA professor who helped create red flag laws after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre says more states need to adopt them, and consider new laws as well, to address school shootings.

From an MIT engineering degree to business consulting to law school, Tiffany Mickel has allowed intellectual curiosity to set her path.

Accepting this year’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, Stephen Breyer said the success of democracy in America is up to today’s high school, college and law students.