HR292 Summary

• First read on March 20, 2012, honoring United States Representative Terri Sewell for outstanding achievement and dedicated service
• Recognizes Sewell as the first African-American woman to represent Alabama in Congress, elected November 2, 2010
• Notes her educational accomplishments 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 where she served as editor of the Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review
• Acknowledges her legal career as a securities lawyer at Davis, Polk, and Wardwell in New York City and later as a partner at Maynard, Cooper, and Gale law office in Birmingham specializing in public finance law
• House of Representatives commends her for outstanding accomplishments, commitment to worthy causes and democracy, and offers best wishes for future success