ASHLEY HUFFSTETLER CAMPBELL

Ashley Huffstetler Campbell, Associate, Litigation and Lobbying and Government Relations

Ashley Campbell is an associate attorney at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, where she practices in the areas of civil litigation and legislative and executive representation.  Prior to joining Ragsdale Liggett, Ashley was tax counsel to the North Carolina General Assembly and served as committee counsel to the House Finance Committee.   Ashley is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts, as well as the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. 

Ashley handles a variety of litigation matters at Ragsdale Liggett, including business litigation, appellate advocacy and insurance defense and has extensive experience practicing in both state and Federal courts.  Ashley also represents client interests before the North Carolina General Assembly and various government agencies. 

Prior to joining the North Carolina General Assembly, Ashley was an attorney for Legal Aid of North Carolina, Inc., where she provided legal services to low-income residents in Gaston, Cleveland and Lincoln counties. She continues her work with Legal Aid by volunteering with Project Together, a project that partners attorneys in private practice with victims of domestic violence for purposes of obtaining a domestic violence protective order. 

Ashley has been active in local, state and national politics for years, including stints on the D.G. Martin and Erskine Bowles for Senate campaigns.  In 2002, she managed the successful re-election campaign of North Carolina Senator David Hoyle, and in 2001, she worked for Senator John Edwards in Washington, D.C.

Ashley is a member of the Board of Directors for the Women’s Center of Wake County, which provides shelter and services for homeless women and children.  A leader in the Junior League of Raleigh, Ashley focuses her volunteer efforts on training women to be community volunteers.  She is a member of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, and the North Carolina Professional Lobbyists Association. 

Ashley was recently awarded the 2008 Pro Bono Impact award by Business Leader Media for her volunteer work with Project Together. She also received the Triangle Business Journal’s 2008 40 Under 40 Leadership Award, which honors the best and the brightest of the Triangle’s rising leaders under the age of 40.

She is a member of the American Bar Association, the North Carolina Bar Association, and the Wake County Bar Association.

Ashley is a native of Gastonia, North Carolina.  She received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999, and her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2003.

Ashley and her husband Russell reside in Raleigh and attend White Memorial Presbyterian Church.