Everything you need to know about ranked-choice voting in one spot. Click to learn more!

Jody Amedee

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Jody Amedee
Image of Jody Amedee
Prior offices
Louisiana State Senate District 18

Jody Amedee is a former Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, representing District 18 from 2003 to 2016.

Formerly a Democrat, Amedee switched his party affiliation to Republican in March 2011.[1]

Biography

Amedee's professional experience includes working as a laborer for Rubicon Chemical, law clerk for the Louisiana State Senate, founder of the District Attorney's Juvenile Probation Program, Assistant District Attorney and Attorney for the Ascension Parish Tourist Commission.

Committee assignments

2015 legislative session

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

Louisiana committee assignments, 2015
Senate & Governmental Affairs, Chair
Natural Resources
Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development
Joint Capital Outlay

2012-2013

In the 2012-2013 legislative session, Amedee served on the following committees:

2010-2011

In the 2010-2011 legislative session, Amedee served on the following committees:

2008-2009

In the 2008-2009 legislative session, Amedee served on the following committees:

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 State Senate elections, 2015

Elections for the Louisiana State Senate 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. Eddie Lambert (R) was unopposed in the October 24 blanket primary.[3][4]

2011

See also: Louisiana State Senate elections, 2011

Amedee ran for re-election in 2011. She was unopposed in the October 22 primary. Because Louisiana uses a blanket primary system, a candidate can be declared the overall winner of the seat by garnering 50 percent +1 of the vote in the primary. However, if no candidate reaches this threshold, then a general election would have taken place on November 19, 2011 between the top-two vote getters.[5]

2007

See also: Louisiana State Senate elections, 2007

In 2007 Amedee was re-elected without opposition to Louisiana State Senate District 18. Amedee's vote totals are not available because he ran unopposed.[6]

Campaign finance summary

Ballotpedia currently provides campaign finance data for all federal- and state-level candidates from 2020 and later. We are continuously working to expand our data to include prior elections. That information will be published here as we acquire it. If you would like to help us provide this data, please consider donating to Ballotpedia.

Scorecards

See also: State legislative scorecards and State legislative scorecards in Louisiana

A scorecard evaluates a legislator’s voting record. Its purpose is to inform voters about the legislator’s political positions. Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. For example, an advocacy group’s scorecard may assess a legislator’s voting record on one issue while a state newspaper’s scorecard may evaluate the voting record in its entirety.

Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. Some states have a limited number of available scorecards or scorecards produced only by select groups. It is Ballotpedia’s goal to incorporate all available scorecards regardless of ideology or number.

Click here for an overview of legislative scorecards in all 50 states.  To contribute to the list of Louisiana scorecards, email suggestions to editor@ballotpedia.org.











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


2012

Personal

Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update.
Amedee and his wife, Jancy Berthelot, have three children.

Recent news

The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for Jody + Amedee + Louisiana + Senate

See also

External links

Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
-
Louisiana State Senate District 18
2003–2016
Succeeded by
Eddie Lambert (R)


Current members of the Louisiana State Senate
Leadership
Senate President:Cameron Henry
Senators
District 1
District 2
Ed Price (D)
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
District 9
District 10
District 11
District 12
District 13
District 14
District 15
District 16
District 17
District 18
District 19
District 20
District 21
District 22
District 23
District 24
District 25
District 26
District 27
District 28
District 29
District 30
District 31
District 32
District 33
District 34
District 35
District 36
Adam Bass (R)
District 37
District 38
District 39
Republican Party (28)
Democratic Party (11)