Carole Hillard.

• Position: People & Politics

Carole Hillard, former South Dakota legislator, lieutenant governor and self-described "humanitarian junkie" who traveled the world to promote democracy, died in October in Switzerland. She was 71. Hillard broke three vertebrae when she fell on a sailboat in the Adriatic. She had organized a conference on federalism in Turkmenistan, and was on a boating trip with friends at the time of the accident. She had surgery in Croatia and left for Switzerland a few days later. But a bacterial blood infection, pneumonia and a series of strokes led to...