Ebony Woodruff

Ebony Tanjel Woodruff (born September 1980) is a lawyer and politician from Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a Democratic former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 87. Without opposition, she won a special election on October 4, 2013, to finish the term of fellow Democrat Girod Jackson III. He resigned due to charges of tax evasion; he was convicted. She lost the Democratic primary for that seat in October 2015.

In 2014, the conservative Louisiana Family Forum scored Woodruff 33 percent. She was ranked that year 80 percent by Louisiana Right to Life even though she was one of five representatives to vote against the requirement that abortion providers have hospital admitting privileges near their clinics. She ranked 58 percent from the Louisiana Association of Educators.

Woodruff co-sponsored but did not vote on final passage in 2014 on the matter of extending the time for implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. She also did not vote on the question of forbidding the transportation of dogs in open truck beds on interstate highways. She voted to repeal the anti-sodomy laws; the measure failed in the House, 27-67. She voted to permit concealed carry of weapons in restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages. She voted against the requirement that companies must give public notice of proposed hydraulic fracking.

Woodruff lost her bid for a full term in the House in the primary election held on October 24, 2015. She was unseated by Democrat, Rodney Lyons, who polled 2,883 votes (58.6 percent) to Woodruff's 2,034 (41.4 percent).