Judge Asher is a local product having graduated from Huntington High School. He earned a B.A. at Princeton University and a J.D. at Cornell University. After law school he served for two years in the United States Army attaining the rank of Captain and is a lifetime member of V.F.W. Post 1469. 

Judge Asher practiced law with the law firm of John Toaz (a former President of the Suffolk County Bar Association) for five years and then became a sole practitioner for over thirty years with a general practice in real estate, surrogate matters and trial practice. He was a certified baseball agent for over twenty-six years and worked with Tony Attanasio. He represented several major league baseball players in arbitration cases heard in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Among the local New York players he represented were Bud Harrelson, Lee Mazzilli, Tim Teufel, Rafael Santana, Shane Rawley, Neil Allen and Scott Brosius. 

He has served on numerous community and charitable boards and he was a member of the of the Huntington Planning Board for seventeen years and he served on several Town of Huntington citizen committees. He was among the first ten recipients of a Congressional Achievement Award in 1984 for outstanding service to the community of Long Island and was the first honoree of the Huntington Town's Youth Board Invest in Youth Award. He is a recipient of the Kiwanis International Hixon Award.