07/06/2022
From community activist to attorney, Ashley Williams has dedicated her life to pursuing justice for families. As a lived experience expert, community advocate, student, and now lawyer, Attorney Williams has been a staunch advocate for family reunification, permanence, client wellbeing, and systemic change. Multiple judges that she has appeared before in her role as parent’s counsel consistently note her intellect, deep knowledge of the law, preparation, passion, professional maturity, communication skills, and ability to use her personal lived expertise of the system to help advance justice for her clients. A former colleague, and later opposing counsel, described her as a gift to the courtroom because of her dedication to helping clients reach the best outcome, collaborative approach, and creative legal arguments. One of her many nominators said: “Ashley embodies everything that the profession would hope to have in a young lawyer,” and NACC agrees.
