She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 2013. While in law school, Amanda was the Outside Articles Editor of the North Dakota Law Review, a teaching assistant for trial advocacy and legal writing classes, and a member of the 2012 Trial Team. Amanda’s article on products liability, entitled Conflict Preemption: Rewriting the Test for Impossibility: The United States Supreme Court Removes the Protection of the Law for Generic Drug Recipients, was published in Volume 87 of the North Dakota Law Review. She was also elected to the Order of the Barristers, a national honor society recognizing excellence in written and oral advocacy.