Gail Vaughn Ashworth - a Nashville, Tennessee (TN) Personal Injury Lawyer

Nashville Personal Injury Lawyer

Updated: 02/16/2026

Areas of Practice

Personal Injury
Mediation and Arbitration
Employment Law
Administrative Law
Health Care Law
Insurance Coverage
Medical Ethics
Product Liability

Attorney Information

Overview

Gail Vaughn Ashworth has been successful in high profile cases ranging from defense of health care institutions and individuals to obtaining one of the largest wrongful death verdicts for the plaintiff in Tennessee in a product liability case and success in one of the nation’s most notorious family law cases. Her diverse trial practice spans nearly three decades and ranges from personal injury to insurance coverage, employment law and medical ethics. Regardless of the case, her commitment is always the same: hard work for the client, tenacity in her advocacy and excellence in the profession.

A founding member of Wiseman Ashworth Trauger PLC, Gail 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 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.

Gail is 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, a trustee of the Nashville Bar Foundation and she is involved in state and national organizations that teach leadership to lawyers—TBA Leadership Law and the ABA/TIPS Leadership Academy. 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 also regularly speaks at continuing legal education seminars and was a faculty member and student mentor for the 2012 ABA/TIPS/ABOTA National Trial Academy at the National Judicial College. She serves on several non-profit boards and is a member of a local hospital medical ethics committee.

Gail Vaughn Ashworth has practiced civil litigation in Nashville, Tennessee, since 1983. She is AV®Preeminent™ rated – the highest peer-review rating possible – and has been listed in Best Lawyers in America® since 1995. Among her personal interests, Gail is a marathon runner, a motorcycle enthusiast, a classical pianist and an avid Nashville Predators fan. She has also attended numerous world championships, including the Iditarod, the Tour de France and the Ironman Triathlon in Kona.

Awards and Honors

Super Lawyers® Selectees

Gail Vaughn Ashworth included in a Super Lawyers® list

Honors

AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell
Best Lawyers in America®, Recognized since 1995
Best of the Bar Lifetime Achievement winner, Nashville Business Journal
Super Lawyers 2006 - 2024
Fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation
Fellow, Tennessee Bar Foundation

Other Sources of Feedback About Gail Vaughn Ashworth

Included on the 2025 Mid-South Super Lawyers list

Past Lists

2024 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2023 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2022 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2021 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2020 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2019 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2018 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2017 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2016 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2015 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2014 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2013 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2012 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2011 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2010 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2009 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2008 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2007 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
2006 Mid-South Super Lawyers list

Education

Legal Education
- Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, 1983
  J.D.
Non Legal Education
- Tennessee Technological University, Cookville, Tennessee, 1979
  M.A.
- Tennessee Technological University, Cookville, Tennessee, 1977
  B.S.
  Honors: summa cum laude

Current Employment Position(s)

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Partner
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Pro Bono Activities

Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (1991-1997; Chair, 1996)
Board of Directors, Sister Cities Nashville, Inc. (Vice President, 2005-2009, 2011)

Bar Admissions

Tennessee
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
U.S. District Court Western District of Tennessee
U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee

Other Affiliations

Nashville Bar Association, Board of Directors, 1993-1997
Nashville Bar Association, President, 1997
Tennessee Bar Association, Board of Governors, 1996-1997, 1999-2011
Tennessee Bar Association, General Counsel, 1999-2007
Tennessee Bar Association, President, 2009
Tennessee Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division Executive Council Coordinator 1988-1990
Tennessee Bar Association, Secretary, 1990-1992
Tennessee Bar Association, Fellows of the Young Lawyers Division
Tennessee Bar Association, President, 1996
American Bar Association, House of Delegates, 2000-2006
American Bar Association, Young Lawyer Division District Representative, 1989-1991
American Bar Association, Assistant Executive Council Coordinator, 1990
American Bar Association, Meetings Coordinator, 1991
Lawyers Association For Women (Marion Griffin Chapter)
Tennessee Lawyers Association for Women

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Nashville, TN

511 Union Street
Suite 800
Nashville, TN 37219 - 1743

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Phone: 615-254-1877

Fax: 615-254-1878

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Website: https://watlawgroup.com/

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