Ashley D. Adams is the President and CEO of Ashley D. Adams PLC. Ms. Adams specializes in white collar criminal defense cases, representing corporate and individual clients in federal and state criminal trials, investigations, health care qui tam cases, and regulatory and administrative matters. Ms. Adams is a former United States Assistant Attorney, and a former partner of the law firms of The Phoenix Law Group, and O’Connor Cavanagh. She received her J.D. from Arizona State University in 1991 and her undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1988. Ms. Adams currently serves as the American Bar Association’s co-chair for the Southwest Region’s Subcommittee on White Collar Crime, and is a member of the ABA’s Heath Care Fraud Subcommittee, and is the Secretary for the Phoenix Chapter of the Woman’s White Collar Defense Association. She has been named by Super Lawyers since 2021 as one of the top 25 women attorneys in Arizona. Ms. Adams has been recognized by “Arizona’s Best Lawyers” and “Southwest’s Super Lawyers” Since 2010. Ms. Adams is a Fellow of the American Bar Association, and was named by National Trial Lawyers as one of the “Top 100” in Criminal Defense. Adams & Associates, PLC was named as the Best White Collar Criminal Defense Firm by Ranking Arizona in 2022. Ms. Adams was appointed by the Scottsdale City Council as a Commissioner the City of Scottsdale’s Human Relations Commission.