Sandra Fluke, the former Georgetown University law student who became embroiled in a national debate over whether women should receive free contraception from insurance companies, was named on Tuesday as one of 40 candidates for Time magazine's “Person of the Year.”
According to the magazine's website, the award “is bestowed by the editors on the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.”
Joining the recently graduated 31-year-old lawyer on Time’s candidate list are 2008 Person of the Year President Barack Obama, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 1992′s Man of the Year and former President Bill Clinton, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Gov. Mary Fallin (R-OK) Heather Shumaker, author of It's Ok Not to Share...and Other Renegade Rules Ken Johnson, News Director, KOKC Oklahoma William Kristol, founder & editor, The Weekly Standard
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