Meet the Buckley Team

Ashleigh grew up as the oldest of four in the River Valley area. As a kid, she played basketball at Pocola and rode horses with the Greenwood Round-Up Club and Old Fort Days Dandies. Her favorite memories from her childhood are trail riding with one grandfather and talking news and politics with her other grandfather. As a teenager, Ashleigh was active in local theater productions with the Fort Smith Little Theater and Southside High School. She graduated with Honors from Southside High School in 2003

While attending college at the University of Arkansas, Ashleigh fell in love with the Razorbacks and never missed a football game. Her favorite days at the U of A, though, were in the Spring when the weather was just right for a day at Baum Stadium. Her senior year was spent working on her thesis titled, “The Impact of Women in the Arkansas State Legislature.” Ashleigh graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 2007. She then went on to attend the University of Arkansas School of Law that same year.

As a law student, Ashleigh was a member of the National Trial Competition and American Association for Justice mock trial teams. In 2009, she and her trial partner became the first all-female team to win first place in the William H. Sutton Barristers’ Union Trial Competition at the University of Arkansas. She also served as Secretary of the Board of Advocates. She graduated and earned her Juris Doctor degree in 2010.

After law school, Ashleigh worked as an Associate with the law firm of Leitner, Williams, Dooley, & Napolitan in Memphis, Tennessee where she gained valuable trial and courtroom experience in trucking, car wreck, slip and fall, and other personal injury cases. Her heart led her back home to Fort Smith in 2012 when she began her career as a prosecutor. She worked as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Sebastian County and tried jury trials in felony and misdemeanor cases. Ashleigh was most passionate about prosecuting crimes against children and domestic and sexual abuse cases. This passion Ashleigh her to work as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Arkansas while focusing on cases under the Project Safe Childhood Division. She prosecuted the worst of offenders who produced child pornography and sexually exploited children online. She also represented the United States in many appellate matters and has argued before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ashleigh specializes and is experienced in representing people in the following types of cases:

Car wrecks

Motorcycle wrecks

Trucking wrecks

Pedestrians hit by a vehicle

Slip and fall injuries

Sexual assault and rape on behalf of the victims

Medical malpractice

Real estate disputes

Construction and remodeling disputes

Breach of contract

Appeals – both federal and state

At home, Ashleigh is a proud boy mom and wife. Her two sons, Will and Ben, keep her on her toes more than any opposing counsel ever could. She loves her dog, Charlie, caring for her senior horses in their retirement years, reading good books, and Broadway musicals. The Razorbacks still stress her out but she loves them anyway. You can find her every weekend at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Fort Smith - she’ll probably be the one with the loudest kids.