She's the grandmother behind bills requiring DUI offenders to pay victims child support

When Cecilia Williams lost her grandson, son and her future daughter-in-law in a crash police said was caused by a drunken driver, she was in a haze of excruciating grief for a month.

Then she sprang into action.

The grandmother in Bonne Terre, Missouri, started doing research while the man who drove the car that crashed into her loved ones prepared to face his first court date on charges of felony drunken driving resulting in death.

Williams said she found that all too often, drunken drivers face little to no jail time, pay little restitution and reoffend. She decided to craft legislation in her home state of Missouri in hopes of adding a deterrent for offenders and some compensation for those left to raise the children of parents killed in drunken driving crashes.