Beryl Adams Amedee

Beryl Adams Amedée (born October 1964) is the Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 51, which encompasses Assumption, Lafourche, St. Mary, and Terrebonne parishes in the southern portion of Louisiana. Amedee formerly served on the Terrebonne Parish Council, based in Houma. A long-time advocate of home schooling, she was formerly a staff member of the conservative Louisiana Family Forum, based in the capital city of Baton Rouge.

In the runoff election held on November 21, 2015, Amedée unseated the two-term incumbent Republican Representative Joe Harrison of Napoleonville, 4,101 votes (52 percent) to 3,783 (48 percent).

Amedée is one of the seventeen Louisiana House Republicans who openly sided with Attorney General Jeff Landry in blocking an executive order by GovernorJohn Bel Edwards which until it was declared unconstiutional would have protected homosexuals from discrimination in the workplace. She also opposes a state Senate bill which would require all employers but religious institutions to hire regardless of sexual orientation. The Senate bill, she said, places greater restrictions and burdens on businesses beyond what federal law requires and is a threat to religious freedom. Amedée said she opposes governmental intrusion into the employment process but reached out to homosexuals, saying, "People don’t want to understand today that if I disagree with you, that doesn’t mean that I hate you.”