
Ashley (Goins) Michael was born in Lynchburg, Virginia but has been a North Carolinian since the early 1980s. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in 1999 from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, was a Dean's List graduate and an Ambassador to the City of Asheville from 1996-1999. In 2006, she graduated from the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia receiving her Juris Doctorate. She was an Associate Editor of the Appalachian Journal of Law and a member of the Moot Court Board while in law school. She was admitted to the North Carolina State Bar in September of 2006.