Peter G. Ashman joined the firm's Anchorage Office as counsel in 2007 following two years of service as a pro tem Superior Court Judge in Anchorage, Bethel and Kenai, Alaska. Mr. Ashman also served sixteen years as an Alaska District Court Judge and two years as a magistrate in the Alaska District Court in Dillingham. He was also a Public Defender in Anchorage and Palmer, AK. After his years of service on the trial bench, he retired to serve as General Counsel for Norton Sound Health Corporation, a non-profit Native health consortium based in Nome, AK. During this time, he also served as a member and chair of the Governor's Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. Mr. Ashman was deeply involved in statewide judicial education in Alaska, including teaching Tribal judges, and was part of many non-traditional judicial projects such as circle sentencing and therapeutic courts. He was also one of the first recipients of the Alaska Supreme Court's Community Outreach Award.

Before moving to Alaska, Mr. Ashman worked for Seemmes, Bowen & Semmes in Baltimore, MD. He also helped establish the first legal services office on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He participated in the Leadership Institute in Judicial Education at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, and taught at the National Judicial College in Reno, NV. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1977.