First Admitted: 1993, California

Bar/Professional Activity:

Napa County Bar Association, 2023
The National Trial Lawyers - Top 100- Criminal Defense, 2023
California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, 2023
Napa County Women Lawyers, 2023
Board of Directors, Contra Costa County Bar Association
Member - Judicial Nomination Election Committee, Contra Costa County Bar Association, 2015

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Educational Background:

University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, Certificate of Participation, The law of England and Wales: an introduction., 2023
New York University, Undergraduate Study
San Francisco State University, B.A. Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude, Departmental Honors, 1990

Scholarly Lectures/Writings:

MCLE presentation on laws regulating workplace investigations such as harassment and whistleblowing., Speaker, Who, When, Why and How: Laws Regulating Workplace Investigations, Sonoma County Bar Association, 2018
Author, Supreme Court Justices Are People Too: A Review of Sonia Sotomayor’s “My Beloved World", Contra Costa Lawyer, 2013
Speaker, Everything You Wanted To Know About Criminal Law But Were Afraid to Ask, 2015
Author, Courthouse Step Dwellers: Violating Sherman’s Trust or Assisting Sallie Mae?, Contra Costa Lawyer, 2013
Author, From the Other Side Of The Jury Box, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2008
Author, Prison Law – Before and After Wilson v. Seiter: Cases Challenging the Conditions of Confinement in the Ninth Circuit, Golden Gate University Law Review, 1992

Amanda I. Bevins