Jeff Beauregard Sessions (R)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Senator, Alabama
- Birth Date: Dec. 24, 1946
- Occupation: Attorney
- Religion: Methodist
- Web site: http://www.sessions.senate.gov
Education
- Huntingdon College, BA
- University of Alabama, JD
Jeff Sessions was born and raised in Hybart, Ala., but went to school in nearby Camden in southwest Alabama. He resides in Mobile.
Sessions earned a bachelor's degree from Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala., in 1969 and a law degree from the University of Alabama in 1972. He worked in private practice in Russellville, Ala., from 1973 to 1975 and then served as assistant U.S. attorney in Mobile from 1975 to 1977.
He worked at a Mobile law firm from 1977 to 1981, and then became U.S. attorney for Alabama's Southern District. He left in 1993 to return to private law practice until he was elected to the state attorney's office in November 1994.
He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996.
Sessions and his wife, the former Mary Blackshear, have three children.
