Tammie Clark Alexander
Member
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
ALICIA ELKIN
Photo by Chuck Warner Photography.
TAMMIE CLARK ALEXANDER remembers thinking at an early
age that being a lawyer might be a good fit for her, but it also
seemed far-fetched given that there were no lawyers in her home-
town of Cameron, WV. The legal path was long, but she perse-
vered, and today she is a member at Steptoe & Johnson PLLC,
where she leads the firm’s Banking, Real Estate and Financial
Services Practice Group.
“I got to where I am today because I didn’t let adversity get
me down,” she says.
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Alexander grew up on a 400-acre dairy farm where her first
job was picking berries and selling them to local customers. The
day after she graduated high school, she moved to California
to be with her sister, and she went to work for a company that
supplied hardware and test cell accessories to the transporta-
tion industry. She went on to find her first job in the legal pro-
fession as a paralegal for a sole practitioner in Morgantown,
WV, which eventually led her to Steptoe & Johnson.
“I learned a lot from those early jobs, but the greatest lesson