Experience: Since January 2020, Amanda Freeman has been the Foundation’s Associate Corporate Counsel, working closely with Corporate Counsel Richard Clair who has been with the Foundation for more than forty-five years.

Amanda has also been, and continues to be, a staff attorney at the Foundation since September 2013.  As a staff attorney, Amanda represents both public and private sector employees in disputes in federal and state courts and administrative agencies.  She has also handled many settlements with employers and unions resolving disputes before they reached a court or agency.

Amanda was lead attorney in many cases and unfair labor practice charges challenging and seeking implementation of Michigan’s Right to Work law, which was effective March 28, 2013 – February 13, 2024.  Clarkston Educ. Ass’n v. Conwell, 319 Mich. App. 422 (2017), appeal denied, 501 Mich. 1027 (2019); Saginaw Educ. Ass’n v. Eady-Miskiewicz, 319 Mich. App. 422 (2017), appeal denied, 501 Mich. 1027 (2018) (lead counsel for Appellees Snyder and Carr).

Prior to joining the Foundation, Amanda clerked for the Honorable Glen A. Huff (August 2011 – August 2013) and for the Honorable Robert J. Humphreys (August 2009 – July 2011) who were both on the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Before and during law school, Amanda gained experience in the legal field while working as an administrative assistant and then a paralegal at Mauck & Baker, LLC in Chicago, Illinois, and as an intern at Lentz, Stepanovich & Bergethon, PLC in Virginia Beach, VA.

Bar Admission: Commonwealth of Virginia, 2009; U.S. Supreme Court, 2013.

Court Admissions:  United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, 2016; United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2017; United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2016; United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2017; United States District Court for the W.D. of Michigan, 2016.

Law School: Regent University School of Law, J.D., 2009; Study Abroad: International Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, Summer 2007.

College: Bob Jones University, B.S., Administrative Management, Minor in Political Science, cum laude, 2005.

Member: Federalist Society.

Publication: Does “Emergency” Trump Conscience Thus Drawing Another Line In the Sand For Pharmacists?, 21 REGENT U. L. REV. 181 (2008).