About Amanda
Amanda Engen is an attorney based in North Dakota who has moved among public service and personal practice during the last two decades. She combines courtroom experience from tribal and state structures with military legal service. Her background consists of work on financial child support and parenting-time things in addition to service as a Judge Advocate General.
She earned her J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2009. Before that she finished a B.A. on the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities in 2004, concentrating on psychology and political science. Those educational selections shaped an early interest in family and regulatory law and informed work she later did for state agencies.
Her first recorded position in the public sector got here in Minnesota, where she served as a parenting-time investigator for the state in 2004. That fieldwork put her interior family court processes and exposed her to the investigative side of custody and visitation disputes. She later joined the State of North Dakota as a Special Assistant Attorney General in 2011, working on child support matters. The role involved courtroom appearances and administrative hearings tied to support enforcement and modification.
In 2012 she took a fee as a Judge Advocate General with the North Dakota National Guard. That role further military legal practice to her résumé. She then established a personal practice and in 2014 have become president of Engen Law Office, P.C., a firm she leads. At the company she has handled matters that stem from her prior public roles, representing clients in family-related hearings and in tribal court settings. She is permitted to practice in North Dakota and in Spirit Lake Tribal Court, and she or he has experience moving between those forums relying on a client's needs.
Colleagues and opposing counsel describe her as methodical in court and easy in preparation. She has balanced work that consists of state agency representation, army legal service, and private-client advocacy. Her practice today is conducted through Engen Law Office, P.C., where she handles household regulation, child support things, and representation in tribal courtroom hearings.
