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Amanda is a member with the Firm practicing primarily in the area of healthcare liability defense and professional liability defense. Representing physicians, healthcare professionals, and legal professionals in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, Amanda has extensive litigation experience in state, federal, appellate, and multi-district litigation courts and before various professional Boards.

Prior to her affiliation with RKRB in 2007, Amanda practiced in Hattiesburg, Mississippi for eight years in mass tort medical device/pharmaceutical defense, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, and general insurance defense. She has extensive appellate experience and multiple published decisions from the Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

Amanda is licensed to practice in the States of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Her regional area of practice includes the Memphis/Shelby County metropolitan area, West Tennessee, Northeastern Arkansas, and all of North Mississippi.

Amanda has been named to SuperLawyers annually since 2013 in the field of Medical Malpractice – Defendants. She has also been named to Best Lawyers in America annually since 2018 and Best Lawyers – Women in the Law. She was recently named 2025 Lawyer of the Year In Memphis for Medical Malpractice – Defense, an honor awarded annually by Best Lawyers to only one lawyer per practice area in each region based on peer reviews.

   

Best Lawyers in America 2025 Lawyer of the Year
Best Lawyers in America (2018 - present)
Best Lawyers, Women in the Law
Superlawyers - Rising Star (2013)
Superlawyers (2014 - present)
Superlawyers Top 100 Tennessee
Super Lawyers Top 50 Women
Super Lawyers Top 50 Memphis
Martindale Hubbell Rating AV Preeminent Rating since 2013
Fellow of the Memphis Bar Foundation
Hearing Committee Member, Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility (2011 - 1017)
Barrister, American Inns of Court, Leo S. Bearman, Sr. Chapter (2013 - 1016)

Board of Directors, Porter-Leath (2011 - 2014)

Former Standards and Ethics Advisor to the Gamma Eta Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, University of Memphis

Former Board of Directors member Delta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi Housing Corporation at the University of Mississippi

Former Executive Board Member Hutchison School Parent Association (2016 - 2023)

Education

University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., 1999
University of Mississippi, B.A., 1995

Bar Admissions

Tennessee 2007
Mississippi 1999
Arkansas 2011
6th Circuit Court of Appeals
5th Circuit Court of Appeals

Interests

Outside of work, Amanda can be found spending time with her family at Pickwick Lake, cheering for her daughter’s volleyball games, or watching her daughter cheer for the Hutchison Sting. She also enjoys relaxing outdoors with a good book and her two goldendoodles, Lilybelle and Lulu. Amanda and her husband are avid New Orleans Saints and Ole Miss baseball fans and are faithfully waiting on a return trip to Omaha for the College World Series.