Ashley E. Bentley

Ashley E. Bentley graduated from Freed-Hardeman University in 2001 with degrees in Computer Science and Communications. After undergraduate school, she worked at the Walt Disney World Resort before attending law school at University of California, Law San Francisco (formerly Hastings School of Law), Class of 2008. During her time in law school, Ashley was awarded the Excellence for the Future award in Negotiations and Settlements and was a National Champion in Representation in Mediation.

Since returning to East Tennessee, Ashley has developed her passion for helping others and implementing that passion into her Family Law and Domestic Relations practice. She has been admitted to practice in all State Courts and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Ashley is a Rule 31 listed Mediator for both General Civil and Family Law mediations.

In 2015, Ashley joined Kizer & Black, Attorneys, PLLC as the Domestic Relations and Family Law attorney. Services include representation in the areas of contested or agreed divorces, custody and co-parenting issues for married, never married, or post-divorce couples, adoptions, child support, grandparent visitation, and juvenile issues, such as unruly and delinquent citations and dependency and neglect petitions. Ashley enjoys the practice of litigation and also values her ability to provide productive mediation services. While Blount County is home, Ashley represents clients in various surrounding counties, including Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Anderson, Roane, and Sevier.

Ashley is a member of the Blount County, Knoxville, and Tennessee Bar Associations. Ashley is the current President of the Blount County Bar Association. Ashley is an alumnus of Leadership Blount, Class of 2019 and she has previously served as President of the Blount County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division (2010 – 12), as a District Representative for the TBA, Young Lawyers Division (2012 – 14) and is a former member of the Board of Directors for Legal Aid of East Tennessee. Ashley became a Partner at Kizer & Black, Attorneys, PLLC in 2025 after nine years of dedicated service to the firm.

When Ashley is not practicing law, she is probably training for her next race, spending time with her three children and her pug, Wooffles, trying to find her way out of an escape room, or planning her next adventure.