Amata Catherine Coleman Radewagen (born December 29, 1947), commonly called Aumua Amata , is an American Samoan politician who is the current delegate for the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa.
Radewagen, a Republican, was elected on November 4, 2014, after defeating Democratic incumbent Eni Faleomavaega.
She began her tenure on January 3, 2015.
She also serves as the National Committeewoman for the Republican Party of American Samoa.
Amata is the first woman to represent American Samoa in the U.S.
Congress.By winning 75.4% of the vote in her 2016, Aumua Amata attained the highest number of votes in American Samoa history.
She won reelection with 83.3 percent of the votes in a three-way race in 2018.She has been the scheduling director for the United States House of Representatives Majority Leadership for eight years.
Radewagen has been the most senior member of the Republican National Committee since 2012.
She was a member of both the Executive Committee for the 2016-17 Presidential Transition and the Executive Committee for the 2017 Republican National Committee Chairman's Transition Committee.
In 2019, she was appointed by President Donald Trump to serve on the President’s Commission for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.