R. Ashby Pate

R. Ashby Pate (Engl), a former associate justice of the Supreme Court of Palau, an island country in the western Pacific, has returned to Alabama, where he is of counsel at Lightfoot Franklin & White in Birmingham. As his firm puts it, “Ashby may have the most interesting resume of any lawyer practicing in the State of Alabama.” He’s also recorded two albums of music and written a children’s book. Ashby and wife Christine have two daughters.