Terri A. Sewell
Democrat · AL-7 · U.S. House
AL-7 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Terri A. Sewell is on the ballot. Terri Sewell vs. Ammie Akin. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.7 years
- First took office
- 2011 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 89 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 61
- Selma, AL · 334-877-4414
- Birmingham, AL · 205-254-1960
- Montgomery, AL · 334-262-1919
- Tuscaloosa, AL · 205-752-5380
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
- Assets
- $435k – $1.1M
- Liabilities
- $315k – $800k
- Net worth
- −$365k – $786k
- Since 2019
- +$424k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 19 assets reported
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)
Issue profile
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.
On the political map
Terri A. Sewell (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
- 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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Medicare Subsidy Scrapped By Trump Would Be Saved Under New BillTwo Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill to reverse the Trump administration's decision to end a Medicare prescription drug subsidy program and extend it through 2029. Representatives Kathy Castor of Florida and Terri Sewell of Alabama unveiled the Affordab…
Biztoc.com · September 17, 2026- Iconic Moments From “All Roads Lead to the South” March
Thousands gathered in Alabama this weekend for the “All Roads Lead to the South” National Day of Action for Voting Rights march, a sweeping mobilization focused on voting rights, equal representation, and the future of democracy for Black communities across t…
The Root · May 17, 2026 
In Alabama, Organizers Declare 'Day One' of Mass Mobilization to Stop GOP Attacks on Voting RightsThis is a developing story... Please check back for possible updates...In a show of resistance to the US Supreme Court's dismantling of the Voting Rights Act and Republicans' efforts to redraw congressional districts across southern states in a bid to retain …
Common Dreams · May 16, 2026
Alabama Rushes to Eliminate Its Only Two Democrats in CongressAlabama is pushing ahead with a racist redistricting scheme after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Republican Governor Kay Ivey called Friday for a special session next week of the Alabama state legislature to pass new congressional and state s…
The New Republic · May 1, 2026
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