HJR293 Summary

• Honors United States Representative Terri Sewell for outstanding achievement and dedicated public service.

• Recognizes Sewell as the first African-American woman to represent Alabama in Congress, elected November 2, 2010.

• Highlights her educational achievements including 1986 Cum Laude degree from Princeton University, Master's Degree with First Class Honors from Oxford University in 1988, and 1992 Harvard Law School graduation.

• Notes her professional career as a securities lawyer at Davis, Polk, and Wardwell in New York City and as a public finance lawyer at Maynard, Cooper, and Gale, P.C. in Birmingham after returning to Alabama in 2004.

• Commends her exceptional abilities, commitment to worthy causes, and dedication to democracy and the legal profession; offers best wishes for future success.