By JANE HARPER | The Virginian-Pilot | Published: December 30, 2020 NORFOLK, Va. (Tribune News Service) As she sat in court on countless occasions, first as a police officer, and later as an advocate for crime victims, Tammy McClenney would watch the prosecutors and defense attorneys argue their cases and question witnesses. “I thought, ‘I can do that,’” McClenney said. “And sometimes I thought, ‘I can do that better than they can.’” But the married mother of two young girls wasn’t willing to take on the expense of law school. She had already worked her way through college, delivering Chinese food and cleaning houses, and was trying to save for her daughters’ college educations.
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