Amanda Edwards
Amanda Edwards | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Houston City Council from the at-large district Position 4 | |
| In office January 2, 2016 – January 2, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Clarence Bradford |
| Succeeded by | Letitia Plummer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 19, 1982 |
| Party | Democratic |
| Education | Emory University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
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Amanda Kay Edwards (born January 19, 1982) is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Houston City Council from 2016 to 2020. She was a candidate for the 2020 United States Senate election in Texas in the Democratic primary and briefly ran in the 2023 Houston mayoral election before making a pivot to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2024. She was a candidate for the U.S. House in the 2025–26 special election to fill in the vacancy left by Sylvester Turner's death, ultimately losing the runoff to Christian Menefee.