Amanda Pohl is the current Clerk of the Court in Chesterfield County and an experienced executive leader with local, state, and national organizations. As the Clerk, Amanda has transformed the office to bring electronic filing and reduce reliance on paper. Amanda previously worked to make voting more accessible through vote-by-mail for people across the country. As an executive, she has managed teams, interpreted and implemented various federal, state, and local laws, and solved problems to serve others.

Amanda is a social work educator, building and teaching courses for graduate schools across the U.S., and ran a consulting business supporting businesses, non-profits, and political candidates. She served on the Virginia Fair Housing Board until September 2023. Amanda’s experience includes CEO/Executive Director of a nonprofit and self-employed as a business consultant, where she specializes in strategy, process, and performance.

Amanda also served as a national Director of Programs to recruit and support women in political leadership and supported domestic violence and sexual assault response agencies – including helping agencies stay open and serving clients during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this role, she also built an online data system that complied with competing federal regulations. This system saved domestic violence agencies tens of thousands of dollars each year and helped them meet funding requirements. She worked with a statewide grassroots organizing non-profit to help people directly affected by issues in government advocate for themselves. Amanda served as her sorority’s National President from 2017-2020. Locally, she is a lifetime member of the Chesterfield NAACP and served on the chapter’s Executive Board from 2020-2022.

Amanda holds an MSW with a focus in Administration, Planning, and Public Policy, an MDiv with a focus on Pastoral Counseling, an MS in Patient Counseling. She received her B.A.s in political science and philosophy from Virginia Tech. She’s a proud mom of two great kids.