Top Rated Criminal Defense Attorney in Lexington, KY

Managing partner at Bleile & Dawson, Ashley Witte Dawson represents clients in the following states: Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Her practice is focused on matters of criminal defense, including federal crimes and sex crimes. Named to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 Under 40, the National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys also named her as a Top 10 Under 40 in 2015. She also received the Continuing Education Award from the Kentucky Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Section.

Ms. Dawson is admitted to practice in Kentucky and Indiana. She is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

With a major in criminology, Ms. Dawson graduated magna cum laude from Morehead State University with a Bachelor of Arts. She then attended law school at Salmon P. Chase College of Law, where she obtained her Juris Doctor and immediately began representing the rights and best interests of those who have been accused of committing a crime.

A Life Member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Ms. Dawson is actively involved as a member of several other professional organizations. These include the following: the Indiana State Bar Association, the Kentucky Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Northern Kentucky Bar Association, the Reform Sex Offender Laws, Inc., the National Rifle Association, the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association and Beckfield College’s Advisory Committee for the Paralegal Program.