Amanda Miars, J.D.
Wealth and Estate Advisor
Email Amanda910.218.7839
Amanda joined Live Oak Private Wealth in 2024 as a Wealth Advisor. She has over 11 years of experience helping business owners, entrepreneurs, professionals, individuals and families articulate and achieve their personal and business goals. She partners closely with her clients and their full team of advisors, including attorneys and accountants, to provide a customized and coordinated approach to wealth management, including wealth transfer, tax minimization and estate planning. Amanda’s primary goal is to educate, empower, advise and advocate for her clients in all aspects of their financial lives. Prior to joining Live Oak Private Wealth, Amanda was a partner in the corporate, trusts and estate department of a well-respected law firm in Wilmington, NC.
Amanda earned her B.S. in Business Administration (International) and B.A. in French from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2006 and her Juris Doctorate from Campbell University School of Law in Raleigh, NC, graduating cum laude in 2012. Amanda has served on the Board of Directors of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, the Junior League of Wilmington, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She presently serves on the Board of Directors of Beacon Education, Inc., the Board of Visitors of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and as a Deacon at First Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, NC.
Amanda and her husband, Reynolds, have two children and enjoy traveling, entertaining, philanthropy, cheering on the Tar Heels and the Seahawks and spending time at their place on the Core Sound.