Ms. Askew joined the Bosch Law Firm, P.C. as of counsel on February 1, 2009. A 1981 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law, Ms. Askew served as a law clerk to the judges at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C. from 1981 to 1983. Returning to Knoxville in 1983, Ms. Askew began a career in transactional law with a private firm. Over the next fifteen years she concentrated her law practice on commercial real estate, banking and business transactions. Along with her practice during these years, Ms. Askew was an adjunct assistant professor of law at the University of Tennessee College of Law’s Center of Entrepreneurial Law. In 1998, Ms. Askew left private practice to become a real estate developer with Holrob Investments, LLC. Since 1998, Ms. Askew has developed, and served as the principal in, retail projects in Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and Mississippi. She continues to own developments in several states.

In addition to her law degree, Ms. Askew holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Memphis, magna cum laude, and an M.S. from the University of Memphis in Counseling. Ms. Askew is a graduate of Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, Tennessee.

An active member of her community, Ms. Askew serves on the boards of directors of the Tennessee Housing Development Agency, the Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership, the YWCA, and the Dean’s Circle of the University of Tennessee College of Law. She is a graduate of Leadership Knoxville, Class of 1995, and a past chair of the Police Advisory Review Committee.

Ms. Askew’s practice will focus on business law, including real estate and personal property transactions, financial workouts, representation of borrowers or lenders, business litigation and the representation of individuals and businesses involved in administrative and criminal investigations.