Ashley Hilliard

Ashley Hilliard received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2012. As an undergraduate student with a passion for words, she worked as a staff writer for the Carolinian, covering student and campus news. In 2016, she received her Juris Doctor from NCCU School of Law. While at NCCU, she was an editorial member and editor in chief of NCCU’s Law Review, a member of NCCU’s Pro Bono Council, and president and program coordinator of the NCCU Law Innocence Project. 

After law school, Professor Hilliard returned home to Raleigh, North Carolina, and worked as an attorney for a private firm, handling family law, criminal law and immigration law across the Triangle area. In 2019, Professor Hilliard transitioned into a non-traditional legal role working as a sales and use tax research analyst for a software as a service (SaaS) company in Durham, North Carolina. While working as an analyst, she also served as an adjunct legal writing professor at NCCU School of Law before joining as a full-time faculty member in August 2021. Since 2019, Professor Hilliard has spoken on topics surrounding singles discrimination, the intersection of food law and tax policy, race and diversity in the workplace and non-traditional legal roles.  

Professor Hilliard is affiliated with the American Bar Association, the North Carolina State Bar, the Seventeenth Judicial District Bar, the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, the Legal Writing Institute, and the Scribes American Society of Legal Writing. In her spare time, Professor Hilliard enjoys reading true-crime novels, traveling, gardening, and jogging.