MEDIA

Before enrolling at Loyola Law School, now-retired appellate justice Victoria G. Chaney worked for several years as a registered nurse, and she's still using some of what she learned during her time in medicine to resolve disputes as a mediator.

"Nursing was helpful in that I learned how to work with people," Chaney said, noting that she focused for a time specifically on psychiatric patients. "I just sort of react naturally now to somebody's who's very anxious or somebody who's very aggressive. And I learned ways of behaving in response to aggression or the anxiety or the fear - whatever it is the person is exhibiting - that I have carried with me for the rest of my life. And it's been invaluable."