Rifle Middle School fifth-grade teacher Tammy Williams found her calling a little later in life than many.
The daughter of an industrial arts teacher and a homemaker in Shelley, Idaho, Williams began working as a legal secretary out of high school. It wasn't until she was 28 years old that she decided to take a leap and change her career.
“After eight enjoyable years of working in the law field, I decided to further my education by taking night classes,” wrote Williams in her L.S. Wood Teacher of the Year biography letter. “Initially I was planning to go into business, but what I really wanted to be was a teacher like my father.”
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