Amanda Grandjean Gould

Amanda (“Mandi”) Gould currently serves as Chief Counsel to United States Senator Bernie Moreno. Her portfolio includes all legal functions of the office, ethics, nominations, constitutional matters, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and other ancillary issue areas.

Previously, she was counselor to the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (“Commission”), where she provided legal advice to the Chairman on the First Amendment, Federal Election Campaign Act enforcement matters, advisory opinion requests, and other legal issues before the Commission. She also helped develop and execute the Chairman’s external affairs and media communications strategies.

Before moving to Washington, D.C. in 2023, Mandi previously served as the Senior Adviser, Director of Elections, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State to the Ohio Secretary of State from January of 2019 to September 2023 where she, among other duties, oversaw the Elections and Campaign Finance Divisions of the agency, including Ohio’s 88 county boards of elections.

During her time with the Secretary of State’s Office she was a national leader. She was the elected Chair of the Election Assistance Commission Standards Board Executive Committee, the elected Chair of the Electronic Registration Information Center, the elected Incoming President of the National Association of Election Directors, a member of the National Association of Secretaries of State, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Election Task Force, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Election Data and Science Lab advisory board.

Prior to her time with the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office, Mandi served as an attorney at Bricker & Eckler LLP in Columbus, Ohio, where her practice focused on election law, campaign finance, public policy, ballot initiatives, government affairs, ethics and compliance. Before joining Bricker, Mandi interned for Speaker John Boehner of the U.S. House of Representatives. She also served as a media liaison intern for the U.S. Embassy of the Republic of Iraq, worked as a legal intern with the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office and a law clerk for Justice Daniel R. Hawkins.

Mandi graduated from Miami University magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, earning degrees in journalism and political science, where she was also a member of the Miami Women’s Swimming and Diving Team that won the Mid-American Conference Championship in 2013. She also graduated with honors from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where she was a member of the Ohio State Law Journal. As Symposium Editor, she planned and hosted the 2015 Ohio State Law Journal Symposium on the History and Future of Election Law.

She currently serves as the Chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association Women’s Network. She was a member of the Miami Women in Law and Leadership Committee and previously served as a member of the Miami University Pre-Law Alumni Advisory Board. She is a graduate of the Jo Ann Davison Ohio Leadership Institute. Mandi is a recipient of the 2019 Miami University Alumni 18 of the Last 9 award, recognizing outstanding recent graduates. In her free time, Mandi enjoys teaching Pilates, running, and hiking. She loves adventuring with her husband, Mike, two-and-a-half-year-old son Charlie, and two dogs.