Ashley Nicole Baker

Ashley N. Baker is the 2024-2025 Chair of the ABA Tort, Trial, and Insurance Practice Section’s Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee. She is a double-barred attorney in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.  Ashley has been a licensed truck river for 15 years. She was formerly on the truck driving faculty at Georgia Piedmont Technical College and an over-the-road trainer for a large trucking company. Her combined teaching experience has allowed her to train hundreds of drivers on the rules of the road. She has driven a tractor-trailer through nearly every part of the United States. She is the author of nine authoritative books on the transportation industry, including a series called The Art of Commercial Trucking®. She is also the author of Modeerf’s Transportation Law Dictionary, that in 2023 was acquired by the Executive Office of the President of the United States. 

In 2022, she was the recipient of the prestigious Connie Award scholarship from the Containerization and Intermodal Institute. She received her Juris Doctor from Southern University Law Center, her master's degree in International Transportation Management from the State University of New York, and her LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from the Temple University Beasley School of Law. Ashley is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Systems at Morgan State University. Ashley is a defense attorney handling truck accident and cargo loading claims, defending clients in both state and federal courts.