Current and Past AWA Presidents
Current President
Ashley N.F. Moore
Born in D.C., raised in Clarksville, and Memphian by choice. Ashley obtained her B.A. in Psychology, and minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Ashley earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, where she served on numerous boards to include, Moot Court, the Association for Women Attorneys, and the Student Bar Association. She also competed on both the National Mediation and National Trial Advocacy teams.
Ashley currently works as an AUSA for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee. Prior to her current role as an AUSA, Ashley worked as a trial attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and as an ADA with the Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office. Outside of work, Ashley teaches a Mock Trial course at the University of Memphis and serves as an assistant coach for the National Trial Advocacy team at UofM’s Law School. She is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., and an executive board member on the Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inn of Court.
Ashley is married to Jeffrey K. Moore, Jr., the current president of the Young Lawyers Division for the Memphis Bar Association. This year they look forward to serving the Memphis legal community, alongside welcoming their first child.
2023 Meagan Jones
2022 Abigail D. Hall
2021 Jenna McDonald Nichols
2020 Megan Lane
2019 Laura Deakins
2018 Eileen Kuo
2017 Diana Comes
2016 Lisa Gill
2015 Keating Lowery
2014 Mary Morgan Whitfield
2013 Frances M. Riley
2012 Emily Taube
2011 Lucie Brackin
2010 Michele Howard Flynn
2009 Jennifer Hagerman
2008 Shari Myers
2007 Laurie L. Christensen
2006 The Honorable Kay S. Robilio
2005 Mary McGinnis
2004 Amy M. Pepke
2003 Karen Hall
2002 Sara Falkingham Maxwell
2001 Jackie Prester
2000 Barbara Zoccola
1999 Susan Clark
1998 Valerie Johnson
1997 Patricia Horton
1996 Mary Arnov
1995 Rebecca Baggett
1994 Kathy Story
1993 The Honorable Julia Smith Gibbons
1992 Denise McCrary
1991 The Honorable Bernice B. Donald
1990 Ellen Vergos
1989 Gail Mathes
1988 Shelia Cunningham
1987 Faye Austin
1985 Alayne Adams
1984 Alayne Adams
1983 Kathleen Norfleet
1982 Bonnie Ragland
1981 Bonnie Ragland
1980 Gail Mathes
1979 Gail Mathes