Sandi Jackson
| Sandi Jackson | |
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| City of Chicago Alderman | |
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In office May 21, 2007 – January 15, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Darcel A. Beavers |
| Succeeded by | Natashia Holmes |
| Constituency | 7th ward |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Sandra Lee Stevens September 14, 1963 Kittery, Maine |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | 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 (B.A.) University of Illinois (J.D.) |
| Religion | Baptist |
| Website | City of Chicago 7th Ward |
Sandra Lee "Sandi" Jackson (née 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 succeeded 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. Jackson resigned from Chicago City Council, effective January 15, 2013. On February 20, 2013, Jackson pleaded guilty to one count of filing false tax returns. On August 14, 2013, she was sentenced to one year in prison for filing false income tax returns.
She is the wife of former 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 were noted in Time.
Jackson has also been a longtime political consultant through her solely owned consulting firm J. Donatella & Associates.
Born in Kittery, Maine, Jackson grew up in Akron, Ohio. She is an alumna of Buchtel High School in Akron. Her mother, Sarah Stevens, who is from Atlanta, Georgia, worked three jobs cleaning homes to raise Jackson and two other children. Later Jackson helped her mother clean homes to pay her way through Bowling Green State University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 1985. Jackson's father, Robert Stevens, was from Akron. Jackson met her future husband while still a law student at Georgetown University Law Center and he convinced her to transfer to be with him at the University of Illinois College of Law, where she earned her Juris Doctor in 1992. The couple married on June 1, 1991. The Jackson family keeps two homes. They own one in the South Shore community area, which is within both the Illinois' 2nd congressional district that Congressman Jackson represented in the United States House of Representatives and within the seventh ward that Sandi Jackson represents on the Chicago City Council. The South Shore home serves as an election base. This home was the featured renovation on an HGTV Hidden Potential episode, first aired on March 24, 2009. They also own a home in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., which served as the family home and base for his service in Congress prior to her election. Prior to being elected, Jackson resided four days a week in Chicago and three days a week in Washington D.C.
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