Sandi Jackson : Ask Biography

City of Chicago Alderman, Democratic Committeeman

Personal data

Date of birth

September 14, 1963(age 52)

Place of birth

Kittery, Maine

Political party

Democrat

Spouse

Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Children

Jessica Donatella (b. 2000)
Jesse Louis III ("Tre", b. 2003)

Residence

Chicago, Illinois
Washington, D.C.

Alma mater

Bowling Green State University, Bachelor’s Degree, 1985
University of Illinois College of Law, Juris Doctor, 1992

City of Chicago Alderman

Assumed office

May 21, 2007

Constituency

7th ward

Succeeded by

incumbent

Preceded by

Darcel A. Beavers

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Sandra Lee "Sandi" Jackson (born Stevens, formerly Sandra Lee Stevens), (born September 14, 1963), was elected to the Chicago City Council as an alderman of the 7th ward (map) of the City of Chicago in the 2007 municipal elections held on February 27, 2007. She succeeds Darcel A. Beavers who had been appointed by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley after the 2006 November elections to succeed her father William Beavers, Jackson's rival, as alderman of the 7th Ward.

She is the wife of U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and daughter-in-law of Jesse Jackson. Her candidacy for the city council of a major city was part of national news stories in The New York Times, and thoughts of her running for a position in the United States House of Representatives was noted in Time.

Jackson has also been a longtime political consultant through her solely owned consulting firm J. Donatella & Associates.