During her youth in Haines, three things attracted Ada County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Tessie Buttram to a career in law.
First was an impression of a lawyer’s office she visited as a small child. “I remember his desk was really messy, but they obviously had a lot of reverence for him, and I was like, ‘That’s cool. He is not getting yelled at for having a messy desk.’”
Second was the memory of her mother’s…
