Ms. Ashleigh’s career began in the museum world as a member of the educational department staff of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.  She became involved in art appraising and founded Caroline Ashleigh Appraisers and Auctioneers,  where she catalogued important collections, estates, archives, and served as an art expert in court cases. She has worked closely with major museums, and served as a consultant to several major auction houses including Sotheby’s and William Doyle Auctioneers in New York, together with important celebrity collections such as Debbie Reynolds Hollywood Motion Picture Collection and Museum.  Ms. Ashleigh’s scope of work has included a 90 million dollar art appraisal of an institutional collection which she completed in 2007. She is an internationally known appraiser and has regularly appeared on Antiques Roadshow since 1996.

Ms. Ashleigh lectures extensively on connoisseurship, and is a columnist and author on art and antiques. She is a contributing author to the Antiques Roadshow Collectibles Primer, the Antiques Roadshow Insider Magazine, Art and Antiques Magazine, All About Appraising: The Definitive Appraisal Handbook, and Warman’s Antiques & Collectibles Price Guides – 43rd and 44th Edition.  She has been the subject of feature presentations in the New York Times, Art and Antiques Magazine, and Forbes Magazine., and served as consultant to CBS News, "Inside Edition" on the subject of fakes and frauds. Currently she is writing Warman’s Field Guide to be published in 2010, and working with New York University to develop an international online accredited course for appraisers. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World from 1997 to the present.