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Terri Sewell is a Democratic representative from Alabama who has represented the 7th District since January 2011. House records identify her as the first Black woman to serve in Alabama’s congressional delegation; before Congress she practiced securities and public-finance law.
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Terri Sewell is a Democratic representative from Alabama who has represented the 7th District since January 2011. House records identify her as the first Black woman to serve in Alabama’s congressional delegation; before Congress she practiced securities and public-finance law.
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Open leadership record ↓Terri Sewell is a Democratic representative from Alabama who has represented the 7th District since January 2011. House records identify her as the first Black woman to serve in Alabama’s congressional delegation; before Congress she practiced securities and public-finance law.
In the 119th Congress, Sewell serves on Ways and Means and House Administration. She is ranking member of the Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee and ranking member of the House Administration Elections Subcommittee, while also serving as a Chief Deputy Whip in the House Democratic Caucus.
Sewell has also been a leading House sponsor of voting-rights legislation, including the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. This editorial layer records those source-backed institutional roles without treating routine policy advocacy as a Truthscope controversy.
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