Senator David Sessions Contact information

David R. Sessions is a member of the Republican Party and represents the 35th district in the Alabama Senate. Before his tenure in the Senate, he served as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from House District 105, which encompasses the southern portion of Mobile County, Alabama.

Sessions was elected to office on May 10, 2011, in a special election held to fill the legislative seat left vacant by the appointment of Spencer Collier to the Alabama Department of Homeland Security. In 2012, Sessions was appointed to the House Committee on Boards, Agencies, and Commissions, the Committee on Education Policy, and the Committee on County and Municipal Government.

For the 2014 legislative session, he was named to the House Agriculture and Forestry Committee and in 2015 became chairman of the committee. Sessions is a lifelong resident of Grand Bay, Alabama, where he operates a farming business with his brother. He is married to the former Lisa M. Driskell.

In addition to his political career, Sessions is also a farmer and co-owner of Sessions Farms, a diversified family farming operation in South Mobile County. He graduated from Mobile County High School in 1978. His professional experience includes serving as president of the Grand Bay Water Works and Producers Gin Company LLC.

Throughout his political career, Sessions has been assigned to various committees including the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, Confirmations Committee, Finance and Taxation Education Committee, Local Legislation Mobile County Committee, Senate Rules Committee, Tourism Committee, and Transportation and Energy Committee.