Edwin Poots
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| Edwin Poots MLA | |
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| In office May 8, 2007 – June 9, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Michael McGimpsey |
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| Succeeded by | Gregory Campbell |
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| Born | 1965 Ireland |
| Political party | Democratic Unionist Party |
| Website | http://www.dup.org.uk/EdwinPoots.asp |
Alderman Edwin Poots MLA (b. 1965) is a Northern Irish politician and a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Lagan Valley. He is one of three DUP MLAs for Lagan Valley.
Poots was born in 1965 and was educated at the Wallace High School, Lisburn, and then Greenmount Agricultural College. He is married with four children. He is a farmer and serves on Lisburn City Council. His father, Charles Poots was also a DUP politician, having stood in the 1969 Northern Ireland General Election for the Protestant Unionist Party.
Poots was a member of the Environment Committee and chaired the Committee of the Centre (i.e. Committee for the Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers) in the 1998-2003 Assembly. On 8 May, 2007, he was appointed Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure in the Northern Ireland Executive, a post he held until 9 June, 2008, when a cabinet re-shuffle saw this post being reassigned to Gregory Campbell. It has been speculated that he was removed as Minister for Culture due to his support of the Maze stadium proposals[1].
Poots is a young earth creationist and an opponent of the theory of evolution.[2]
