Episode 217: AshLeigh Dunham – AshLeigh for Alabama
AshLeigh Meyer Dunham is a distinguished legal professional with a career rooted in service to Alabama families. She serves as a Referee in Jefferson County’s Juvenile Court, where she adjudicates sensitive family and juvenile matters with fairness, clarity, and compassion. Her work creates stability for children and families facing crisis, drawing on years of experience handling complex legal issues with a steady, principled approach.
AshLeigh is also a practicing Fertility Attorney at Magic City Fertility Law. Her expertise in this area is deeply personal: AshLeigh and her husband welcomed their daughter through IVF, but had to leave Alabama to access the care they needed to start their family. As an attorney, AshLeigh helps individuals and couples navigate the legal complexities of assisted reproduction so they can start and grow their families too. That experience fuels her public advocacy for legal protections for families seeking fertility treatment. She believes no Alabamian should have to leave home to start a family.
AshLeigh is running for a seat on the Alabama Supreme Court to bring a grounded, family-centered perspective to the state’s highest court. With experience across family and juvenile law, she is uniquely prepared to ensure that the court serves all Alabamians with integrity and empathy.
www.ashleighforalabama.com
Listen as AshLeigh shares with Ellen and Jenn:
· Juggling being a practicing attorney, juvenile referee, hip hop fitness enthusiast, and Alabama Supreme Court candidate!
· Struggling to build a family herself and seeking fertility treatment, unsuccessfully, in state.
· Traveling to Oregon to see a fertility doctor based on Instagram advice.
· Successful getting to her daughter.
· Having two more embryos stored in Oregon, with no intention on moving them to Alabama.
· The terribleness of the LaPage case – the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that a clinic could be held liable for manslaughter as a result of embryo destruction – and it’s aftermath in Alabama.
· Fertility clinics shut down.
· 19 days later the Alabama legislature passed a bill to protect IVF clinics from criminal actions.
· But bill also prevents legal responsibility for clinics acting negligently.
· Alabamians seeking care out of state for family buildng.
· AshLeigh fighting for better care and family rights for Alabamians.
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