Terri A. Sewell

Democrat · AL-7 · U.S. House

Bio

Terrycina Andrea "Terri" Sewell is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district as member of the Democratic Party since 2011. The district includes most of the Black Belt, as well as most of the predominantly African American portions of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa.

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Record of service

In office: 15.6 years
First took office: 2011 (8 terms)
Seniority: 89 of 437 by time served
Age: 61

District offices

Selma, AL · 334-877-4414
Birmingham, AL · 205-254-1960
Montgomery, AL · 334-262-1919
Tuscaloosa, AL · 205-752-5380

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

−$213k

2020

−$170k

2021

−$12k

2022

−$140k

2023

−$97k

2024

−$97k

2025

$211k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $435k – $1.1M
Liabilities: $315k – $800k
Net worth: −$365k – $786k
Since 2019: +$424k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 19 assets reported

Tapestry, Inc. (TPR)$250k – $500k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ American Growth Fund$50k – $100k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ American Investment Co.$50k – $100k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Amer Funds Amcap$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Amer Funds Washington$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ American Euro Pacific$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Columbia Large Cap$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Eaton Vance Income Fund$15k – $50k

Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL)$1k – $15k

Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO)$1k – $15k

GE Vernova Inc. Common Stock (GEV)$1k – $15k

General Electric Company (GE)$1k – $15k

NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA)$1k – $15k

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$1k – $15k

Wells Fargo Acct$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Allspring Asset$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Money Mkt Fund Rsrvs CL1$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Wells Fargo Advantage$1k – $15k

GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. - Common Stock (GEHC)$1 – $1k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.49

Healthcare

D+0.62

Immigration & Border

D+0.60

Guns

D+0.99

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.98

Environment & Energy

D+0.70

Crime & Policing

D+0.42

Defense & Veterans

D+0.02

Economy & Labor

D+0.47

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.20

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.92

Education

D+0.77

Government & Democracy

D+0.74

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.67

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Terri A. Sewell's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

94%Closest

Green Party

86%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

82%

Communist Party USA

80%

Libertarian Party

56%

Republican Party

36%

On the political map

Terri A. Sewell (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Sewellsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on House Administrationright · 12 members
Elections (Ranking Member)
House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Oversight (Ranking Member)Social Security Trade
Joint Committee on Printingcenter · 10 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Sewell's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.