Charles A. Ashe is a graduate of Cornell University (1969) and Syracuse University Law School (1972). He has served on the staff of the State Reporter as Senior Legal Editor since 1972. He was appointed Assistant State Reporter in 1982 and Deputy State Reporter in 1990. He was named as Interim State Reporter in December 1998 until the appointment of Gary D. Spivey as State Reporter in March 1999.

    Mr. Ashe is a past President of the Association of Reporters of Judicial Decisions (ARJD), an international association of Reporters of officially published Court decisions, and has served on the Honors and Education Committees of that organization. He currently chairs the ARJD's Web site committee.