Terri Sewell

Terrycina Andrea " Terri " Sewell ( born January 1, 1965 in Selma, Alabama) is an American politician of the Democratic Party and member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Alabama. She is the first African American woman to hold this office and the sole representative of the Democrats of seven congressmen, which sends Alabama.

Biography

Terri Sewell is the daughter of former coach Andrew A. Sewell and the former councilor and librarian Nancy Gardner Sewell, who held the post as the first woman. Her grandfather was a Baptist preacher.

She studied law at the universities of Princeton, Harvard and Oxford. She received a scholarship from the U.S. News & World Report and graduated with honors. At the age of 25 years, she graduated with a master thesis on the first black members of the British Parliament. During her studies she worked for Congressman Richard Shelby and Senator Howell Heflin. She was active from 1992, also in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization for African Americans.

From the year 1994 she worked as a lawyer at the international law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell on Wall Street, where she was responsible for finance and Kapitalmärke. In 2004, she joined the law firm Maynard, Cooper & Gale, PC, where it is committed to, among others, for the rights of African Americans and for the promotion of educational institutions. In 2011 she was elected to the House of Representatives of the United States and sparked Artur Davis from there. It is there as a member of the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Science and Technology.

Sewell is a member of the Protestant faith.