Bio highlights: Ashley joined our Pro Bono Programs team as a supervising attorney in 2024. She previously served as a domestic violence staff attorney in our Durham office’s satellite office in Henderson, a position she assumed in 2023. This is Ashley’s second stint with Legal Aid NC. She first joined us in 2018 as a domestic violence staff attorney in our Winston-Salem office, transferring to our Durham office shortly thereafter. From 2020 to 2022, she served as an Equal Opportunity and Compliance Coordinator in Duke University’s Office for Institutional Equity. Before joining us in 2018, she worked in private practice after receiving her JD from North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2016. She earned her bachelor’s in criminal justice from Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama.
Resident of: Raleigh, NC
Native of: Lisman, AL
Fun fact: Has won multiple national beauty pageant titles while promoting her domestic violence awareness and prevention platform, and serves as a Lifetime Queen of the American Beauties Plus Pageant.