Gail Vaughn Ashworth – Honors / Recognition
Gail Ashworth recognized by peers in the milestone 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for her exceptional work in Mediation, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants.
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger founding members Thomas A. Wiseman, III, Gail Vaughn Ashworth, and member Margaret Moore have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2022.
Nashville Business Journal names Gail Vaughn Ashworth Best of the Bar Lifetime Achievement winner. View the article here.
Two attorneys at Wiseman Ashworth Trauger have been named to Mid-South Super Lawyers, and one attorney was recognized as a Rising Star. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to the Super Lawyers list, and no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected for the Rising Stars list.
Founding member Gail Vaughn Ashworth was selected as a Top 50 Women Mid-South Super Lawyer, a Top 50 in Nashville, and a Top 100 Super Lawyer in Tennessee. Founding member Tom Wiseman was selected for inclusion in the Mid-South Super Lawyers list. Anthony Bills was named a Mid-South Rising Star.
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The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers Magazines and in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers across the country. Super Lawyers Magazines also feature editorial profiles of attorneys who embody excellence in the practice of law. For more information about Super Lawyers, visit SuperLawyers.com.
Nashville, TN – Wiseman Ashworth Trauger founding members Thomas A. Wiseman, III, and Gail Vaughn Ashworth have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2020.
Wiseman, founding member at the firm, is listed in the practice areas of Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers® since 1999. He has tried more than 75 jury trials to verdict in Tennessee State and Federal trial courts and in other states. Wiseman is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations.
Ashworth, also founding member of Wiseman Ashworth Trauger, is listed for her work in Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants. She has been listed in Best Lawyers® since 1995. Ashworth has extensive experience at the civil and administrative trial and appellate levels as both defense and plaintiff’s counsel. She also is a Tennessee Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator. She is past president of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations and serves as a trustee of the Nashville Bar Foundation.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 94,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received over 11 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 8.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 62,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
November 8, 2018 – Two attorneys at Wiseman Ashworth Trauger have been named to Mid-South Super Lawyers, and two attorneys were recognized as Rising Stars.
Founding partner Gail Vaughn Ashworth was selected as a Top 50 Female Mid-South Super Lawyer, a Top 50 in Nashville and a Top 100 Super Lawyer in Tennessee. Founding partner Tom Wiseman was named a Top 50 in Nashville and Top 100 in Tennessee in Mid-South Super Lawyers.
Partner Kimberly Silvus, and Anthony Bills were named as Mid-South Rising Stars.
Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.
The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers Magazines and in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers across the country. Super Lawyers Magazines also feature editorial profiles of attorneys who embody excellence in the practice of law. For more information about Super Lawyers, visit SuperLawyers.com.
September 12, 2018 – Wiseman Ashworth Trauger founding members Thomas A. Wiseman III and Gail Vaughn Ashworth have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2019.
Wiseman, founding member at the law firm, is listed in the practice areas of Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants. Additionally, Wiseman was named “Lawyer of the Year” in Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants in Nashville for 2019. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers since 1999. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations.
Ashworth, also founding member of Wiseman Ashworth Trauger, is listed for her work in Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants. She has been listed in Best Lawyers since 1995. She is past president of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations and serves as president of the Nashville Bar Foundation.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
April 2018 – Wiseman Ashworth Trauger founding member Gail Vaughn Ashworth has been appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court as Chair of the Access to Justice Commission. Ashworth will serve a two-year term. The Access to Justice Commission was created by the Supreme Court of Tennessee to develop a strategic plan for improving access to justice in Tennessee to include education of the public, identification of priorities to meet the need of improved access to justice, and recommendations to the Supreme Court of projects and programs the Commission determines to be necessary and appropriate for enhancing access to justice in Tennessee.
Ashworth has extensive experience at the civil and administrative trial and appellate levels as both defense and plaintiff’s counsel. Her diverse trial practice spans nearly three decades and ranges from personal injury to insurance coverage, employment law and medical ethics. She also is a Tennessee Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator with over fifteen years’ experience as a mediator. She has a strong mediation and arbitration practice and is known for her fairness and experience in health care, personal injury, product liability, insurance law, administrative and employment law.
Also widely known and respected for her leadership roles in the legal profession and the community, she is a past president of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations, and the current President of the Nashville Bar Foundation. Ashworth is involved in creating local, state and national organizations that teach leadership to lawyers—TBA Leadership Law, the ABA/TIPS Leadership Academy and the NBF Leadership Forum. In addition to serving as president of her state and local bar associations, Gail is particularly proud of having chaired the Tennessee Justice Center, Inc. Board of Directors from 2006-2008, the Tennessee Legal Community Foundation in 2010 and the Legal Aid Society/Nashville Pro Bono Annual Campaign for Justice in 2011.
Gail Vaughn Ashworth included in The Best Lawyers in America 2017 Edition in the practice area of Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants.
Tennessee Supreme Court Access To Justice Commissioner Gail Vaughn Ashworth appears with Chief Justice Jeff Bivins at the Downtown Public Library to announce the #Help4TNDay kickoff set for Saturday April 1, 2017 across the State.
Gail Vaughn Ashworth was elected to the American Bar Association House of Delegates for the Tennessee Bar Association.
Gail Vaughn Ashworth was selected for inclusion in the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants practice area.
Gail Vaughn Ashworth was selected by The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers for 2015.
Gail Vaughn Ashworth was named to the list of Top 50 Women Lawyers in the Mid-South by the 2014 Mid-South Super Lawyers.
Mid-South Super Lawyers, 2013
NBJ Women of Influence Finalist 2013
Reported Cases: Claiborne & Hughes Convalescent Ctr. V. Department of Health, 881 S.W.2d 671 (Tenn. App. 1994); Clay County Manor, Inc. v. State, Dep’t of Health & Enf’t, 849 S.W.2d 671 (Tenn. 1993); In re S.L.M., 207 S.W.3d 288 (Tenn. App. 2006); Levine v. March, 266 S.W. 3d 426 (Tenn. App. 2007); Rollins v. Dixie, 780 S.W.2d 765 (Tenn. App. 1989); Safeco Ins. Co. v. State, 840 S.W.2d 355 (Tenn. 1992); Bd. Of Prof’l Responsibility of the Tenn. Supreme Court v. Cawood, 330 S.W.3d 608 (Tenn. 2010); Carvell v. Bottoms, 900 S.W.2d 23 (Tenn. 1995); Clinard v. Blackwood, 46 S.W.3d 177 (Tenn. 2001); Flax v. DaimlerChrysler Corp. 272 S.W.3d 521 (Tenn. 2008); Wilson v. Rubin, 104 S.W.3d 39 (Tenn. App. 2002).
Alpha Lambda Delta, Kappa Delta Phi, Sigma Nu Phi
Member, Harry Phillips American Inn of Court, 1990-1992
Best Lawyers in America, 1995-present
Leadership Nashville 1997
Member, Medical Ethics Committee, Centennial Medical Center
Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Mediator
Fellow: American Bar Foundation; Tennessee Bar Foundation; Nashville Bar Foundation (Trustee, 2005—)
Fellow, American, Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations, Young Lawyers Division
Tennessee Legal Community Foundation (Trustee, 2008-2011; Chair, 2010)