Mary Blackshear Sessions is the wife Jeff Sessions, United States U.S. Senator from Alabama and Donald Trump administration Attorney general selection. She was born in Montgomery, Alabama. ^[1] The Couple live in Mobile, Alabama.

Mary Blackshear was born in Montgomery, Alabama and raised in Gadsden. She went to Huntingdon College in 1965 and participated in the Huntingdon Christian Council, Westminster Fellowship, Social Standards Board, Young Republicans, and the International Club. She was inducted into Sigma Sigma Sigma, was a Garland Bearer during May Day, and was a senior representative on the All-Star Queen and Court for intramural football.

She met Jeff Sessions, Huntingdon Class of 1969, at the college. While he was in Law school, she taught in Tuscaloosa, Reform, and Montgomery Schools.

Mary serves in the prayer shawl ministry for her Church and as a member at large of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She has been a member of the Senate Spouses Club, the Congressional Club, the Republican Congressional Spouses, and the Advisory Committee of Congressional Families Cancer Prevention. She is also active in CHERUBS, a charity dedicated to helping families affected by Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and Congenital Heart Defect.

The Sessions have three children, Mary Abigail Reinhardt, Ruth Sessions Walk, and Sam Sessions. They have seven granddaughters: Jane Ritchie, Alexa, Gracie, Sophia, Hannah, Joanna, and Phoebe and three grandsons, Jim Beau, Lewis, and Nicholas. ^[1]