Ashley Honeycutt Terrazas is a Raleigh native who concentrates her practice on land use entitlements, site development, and permitting. She has experience advising and representing clients on zoning and quasi-judicial land use entitlements in jurisdictions across North Carolina. Ashley also frequently advises project teams on local development ordinance interpretation issues, infrastructure improvements, and strategies to expedite permits during site planning.
In her litigation practice, she has represented clients before federal and state courts, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the North Carolina Supreme Court, and the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She brings the legal analysis, negotiation, and oral and written advocacy skills she learned as a litigator into her land use practice.
Before entering private practice, Ashley was a judicial clerk for U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Numbers of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. She has also served as a law clerk for the president of the North Carolina Senate and as a judicial intern for Judge Jennifer Elrod of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She earned her law degree, with honors, from the University of Texas, where she was staff editor of the Texas Review of Law & Politics.
Before law school, Ashley was a government and community relations intern and a legal intern with International Justice Mission in La Paz, Bolivia. She is fluent in Spanish. For her undergraduate education, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science from NC State University.
Outside of work, Ashley enjoys spending time with her kids, Southern cooking, baking, and singing.