Researching Terri Sewell
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The name Terri means "Harvester" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Terri Sewell on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Terri Sewell and the Sewell Family Tree
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Terri Sewell
Terrycina Andrea "Terri" Sewell ( born January 1, 1965) is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served since 2011 as the U.S. representative for, which includes most of the Black Belt, as well as most of the predominantly black portions of Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Montgomery.
A native of Selma, Sewell is a graduate of Princeton University, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University. Before entering politics, she was a securities lawyer for Davis Polk & Wardwell and a public finance lawyer for Maynard, Cooper & Gale, where she was the first black woman to make partner. She is the first African-American woman elected to Congress from Alabama and, along with Republican Martha Roby, was one of the first women elected to Congress from Alabama in a regular election. Sewell has been the only Democrat in Alabama's House delegation during her entire term in office, and apart from Doug Jones's tenure as a U.S. senator from 2018 to 2021, she has also been the state's only congressional Democrat.
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