Toni Winninger

From medical technologist to social worker, then from sales representative to director of education of a paramedical trade school, and finally as a lawyer serving for 27 years as a state prosecutor, Toni always sought “The Answer.” In those days she had an insatiable desire to know the factual basis of everything encountered, and to learn what was needed to present her perception of the facts to others, cogently and convincingly.

In those days you would have been told that if you couldn’t pick something up and throw it, then it didn’t exist. If a motive or alibi could not be documented, she didn’t want to hear it. Her left brain, the hard-drive calculator part of her, was in charge. Never feeling emotions because they got in the way of deduction, she could not accept something based upon hearsay—how would she ever prove to someone else beyond a reasonable doubt…