Terri Sewell Bio
Terri Sewell (Terrycina Andrea “Terri” Sewell) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 7th congressional district (includes most of the Black Belt, as well as most of the predominantly black portions of Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Montgomery) since 2011. She is a Democrat. She, together with Republican Martha Roby are the first black women to be elected to Congress from Alabama in regular elections.
She served as co-chair of the Women’s Fund “Voices Against Violence” inaugural campaign, which promoted women helping women to overcome domestic violence. In four months the campaign had raised more than $70,000 to fight domestic violence in Birmingham. The funds were used to establish the first Domestic Violence Court in Birmingham Municipal Court. She led the effort to have Teach for America select Alabama’s Black Belt region as a new site in 2010.
She has also served on numerous boards, including St. Vincent’s Foundation (Treasurer), the Governing Board of the Alabama Council on Economic Education, Girl Scouts of Cahaba Council, the Alabama Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Community Advisory Board for the UAB Minority Health and Research Center and she is a member of the Corporate Partners Council for the Birmingham Museum of Art.
She was listed in the magazine Alabama Super Lawyers in 2008 and 2009. She was honored by the Birmingham Business Journal with the 2007 Minority Business “Rising Star” award. She was selected by the BBJ as one of the “Top Birmingham Women” in 2005. She was a member of the class of 2006-2007 Leadership Birmingham, and a member of the YWCA’s Women Leadership MOMENTUM class of 2007-2008. She was also a member of the class of 2008-2009 Leadership Alabama. Sewell is a lifetime member of Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma.
Terri Sewell Age
Terri was born on 1st January 1965. She is 54 years old as of 2019.
Terri Sewell Net Worth
Terri has a net worth of approximately $285000.
Terri Sewell Family
Terri is the daughter of the late Andrew A. Sewell and Nancy Gardner Sewell. His father, Andrew, was a former high school basketball coach, while her mother is a retired high school librarian and former City Councilwoman in Selma. Her mother was the first black woman elected to the Selma City Council. Both parents held careers in the Selma public school system.
Her mother’s family was politically active, and it offered its homestead to activists who came for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches to gain voting rights. Terri spent her childhood summers in Lowndes County, Alabama with her maternal grandparents. Her grandfather, a Primitive Baptist minister and a farmer, instilled in her a love for the land, an appreciation of hard work, and the importance of her faith. Her grandfather and the members of Beulah Primitive Baptist Church gave her a deep understanding of the Black Belt Region and its people.
Terri Sewell Husband
She got married to Theodore Dixie in 1998 but they are currently divorced.
Terri Sewell Education
Sewell is a graduate of Princeton University, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University. She is a public finance attorney. While in college, she worked on Capitol Hill for 7th congressional district congressman Richard Shelby, as well as for Senator Howell Heflin. She held various leadership positions while in college campus including class vice-president, class representative to the Student Union, and spearheading the admission office’s effort to set up a Minority Student Recruitment office to recruit more minority students to the university.
Terri Sewell Staff
Washington DC Office
Cachavious English – Chief of Staff
Hillary Beard – Senior Policy Advisor
Rob Nuttall – Legislative Assistant
Evan Giesemann – Tax and Economic Policy Advisor
Jackie McGuinness – Communications Director
Perry Hamilton – Scheduler
Scott Harris – Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent
District Offices
Birmingham, Alabama
Ollie Davison – Deputy District Director
Myeisha Hutchinson – Jefferson County Outreach Manager
Kaia Greene – Grants Coordinator/Constituent Services Representative
Asia Brown – Veterans Fellow/Constituent Service Representative
Montgomery, Alabama
Melinda Williams – District Director
Shanna King – Constituent Services Representative
Selma, Alabama
Dianna Johnson – Constituent Services Representative
Robert Stewart – Black Belt Outreach Coordinator
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Reba Love – Constituent Services Manager
Terri Sewell Internship
The deadline for internship, at Terri’s offices, 2019 was closed on March 1st.
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