Amanda graduated from Western Kentucky University in 1999 with a degree in English. She then attended Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, graduating in 2002, Order of the Curia. While in law school, Amanda was an editor for the Northern Kentucky Law Review and a member of the Salmon P. Chase Inn of Court. She was also a member and officer in the Chase Christian Legal Society from 1999-2002. During law school, Amanda clerked with Judge Gregory M. Bartlett, Kenton Circuit Court in Covington, Kentucky.

Upon graduating from law school in 2002, Amanda joined the firm of Bell, Orr, Ayers & Moore, P.S.C. (BOAM) in Bowling Green, Kentucky as a full-time attorney. At BOAM, Amanda practiced in the areas of insurance defense litigation, bankruptcy, education, and school law and banking law. In 2015, Amanda joined Crain|Schuette Attorneys.

Amanda is licensed to practice in all state courts in the Commonwealth of Kentucky as well as the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Ms. Blakeman is also licensed to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She is a member of the Bowling Green-Warren County Bar Association and the Kentucky Bar Association.

Amanda serves on the Board of Directors for a nonprofit agency, South Central Kentucky Kids on the Block. She is also an active member of Rich Pond Baptist Church in Bowling Green, serving regularly with children’s ministry.

She has been married to Lee since 2004 and they have three children.