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Ebony Woodruff

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Ebony Woodruff
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Prior offices
Louisiana House of Representatives District 87
Successor: Rodney Lyons Sr.

Ebony Woodruff is a former Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, representing District 87 from 2013 to 2016. She was first elected to the chamber on October 4, 2013.[1]

Committee assignments

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Woodruff served on the following committees:

Louisiana committee assignments, 2015
Administration of Criminal Justice
Commerce
Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2015

See also: Louisiana House of Representatives elections, 2015

Elections for the Louisiana House of Representatives took place in 2015. A primary election was held on October 24, 2015, with a general election held in districts where necessary on November 21, 2015. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was September 10, 2015, at 4:30 p.m. CDT.[2]
Louisiana elections use the Louisiana majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50% of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article. Incumbent Ebony Woodruff (D) was defeated by Rodney Lyons (D) in the October 24 blanket primary. Derrick Shepherd (D) was disqualified before the primary.[3][4]

Louisiana House of Representatives, District 87 Primary Election, 2015
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngRodney Lyons 58.6% 2,883
     Democratic Ebony Woodruff Incumbent 41.4% 2,034
Total Votes 4,917

2013

See also: Louisiana state legislative special elections, 2013

Woodruff won election in the special election for Louisiana House of Representatives District 87. The seat was vacant following Girod Jackson, III's (D) resignation after he was charged with tax fraud. Woodruff was the only candidate who filed by the October 4 deadline, so she was immediately declared the winner and sworn in. The special election was originally scheduled for November 16.[5][6][1]

Scorecards

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2015

In 2015, the Louisiana State Legislature was in session from April 13 through June 11.

Legislators are scored on bills of interest to Louisiana businesses.
Legislators are scored on votes related to educators and public education.
Legislators are scored on bills related to family issues.
Legislators are scored on bills related to the environment.
Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.


2014


2013

Recent news

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See also

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
Girod Jackson, III (D)
Louisiana House of Representatives District 87
2013-2016
Succeeded by
Rodney Lyons Sr. (D)


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