Ashley Willcott

Ashley Willcott is a nationally recognized Legal Analyst and Certified Child Welfare Law Specialist anchoring Court TV Live Monday through Friday, 3-5 pm ET. She is regularly featured as an expert Legal Analyst and Commentator for high-profile cases on top-tier national media outlets, including Law & Crime, Nancy Grace, HLN, CNN, Inside Edition, and Newsy. Ashley is an acclaimed Trial Attorney with 20 years of courtroom experience, exceptionally skilled in all aspects of litigation and negotiation. She is a highly sought-after guest lecturer and speaker, locally and nationally, for the American Bar Association, National Association of Counsel for Children, Georgia Supreme Court Committee on Justice for Children, Emory University Law School, Barton Child Law and Policy Center, NITA, and Georgia State University, among others. Her life’s work revolves around passionately advocating for and striving to improve the lives of children at risk.

After graduating from Emory University Law School, Ashley quickly established herself as a fervent advocate for children in the juvenile court system and served as Executive Director for Fulton County CASA for several years. Concurrently, she established her own law practice, where she served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Human Resources, Dawson and Rockdale County Division of Family and Children Services. She also became active as a Judge Pro Tem in the DeKalb County Juvenile Court. Additionally, she was named Lead Fellow of the Cold Case Project by the Supreme Court of Georgia Committee on Justice for Children, with the goal of achieving permanency for children in foster care to prevent them from aging out of the foster care system without a home or family.

Subsequently, Ashley served a 3-year appointment as the Child Advocate for the State of Georgia, overseeing a population of over 13,000 at-risk children and youth in foster care.

Ashley received her Bachelor of Science degree from Newcomb College, Tulane University as a psychology and English major, and her Juris Doctor degree from Emory Law School. She is a native Texan and lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and three amazing teenagers.