Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen

High Chief Uifa’atali Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (Aumua Amata), Republican, was elected as American Samoa’s third Member of Congress on November 4, 2014. She is the first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from American Samoa, the first Republican woman of Samoan descent in Congress and the most senior Republican elected federal office holder of Asian Pacific heritage.

Congresswoman Amata serves on three committees. On the House Veterans Affairs Committee, she has a senior role as Vice Chairman of the full Committee, as well as Chairman of the Women Veterans Task Force. She serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific. Amata also serves on the House Natural Resources Committee and is Co-Chairman of the Indo-Pacific Task Force.

In a major bipartisan achievement, Congresswoman Aumua Amata Radewagen has consistently ranked highly in bipartisan activity as measured by sponsoring and co-sponsoring bills with those of the opposite party. The Bipartisan Index, developed by Georgetown University and the Lugar Center, ranked Amata 19th among all 441 House Members of the 117th Congress in 2021.

The Congresswoman holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Guam, with additional studies at Loyola-Marymount and George Mason Universities. In 2018, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by her alma mater, the University of Guam. She is married to Fred Radewagen, and they have three grown children and two grandchildren.

Amata is the fourth of 13 children to the late Governor and Mrs. Peter Tali Coleman. Her father Governor Coleman was the first person of Samoan descent to be appointed Governor of American Samoa and later became the territory’s first popularly elected governor. Prior to being a Member of Congress, the Congresswoman served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leadership Staff for eight years.