Alicia Gilbert began teaching at the Cumberland School of Law in 2024. She teaches contracts, antitrust, business organizations, and health law courses. Her research focuses on how antitrust exemptions impact rural and underserved communities. She was selected as a Health Law Scholar for the 2025 Annual Health Law Scholars Workshop co-sponsored by American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and the Saint Louis University School of Law Center for Health Law Studies. In addition to teaching, Gilbert also serves as Counsel for the Tennessee Office of the Attorney General.
After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and completed a post-clerkship Honors Fellowship with the Tennessee Office of the Solicitor General. She also worked in-house for a large, not-for-profit health system in Alabama, specializing in regulatory and transactional matters.