Ebony Tanjel Woodruff (born September 1980) is a lawyer from Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans, Louisiana, who is an African-American Democratic former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 87. Without opposition, she won a special election on October 4, 2013, which followed the resignation of her fellow African-American Democrat, Girod Jackson, III because of charges and subsequent conviction of tax evasion. A Baton Rouge Advocate study found that Woodruff has in recent years personally voted in fewer than half of the elections held in Orleans Parish.