Marsha Blackburn

Marsha Wedgeworth Blackburn
U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 7th congressional district
In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2019 (pending)
State Senator for Tennessee's 23rd district
In office January 12, 1999 – January 3, 2003
Preceded by	Keith Jordan
Succeeded by	Jim Bryson
Executive Director of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission
In office February 1995 – June 1997
Preceded by	Dancy Jones
Succeeded by	Anne Pope
Chairman of the Williamson County Republican Party
In office 1989–1991
Preceded by	George Miller
Succeeded by	Al Nations
Born	June 6, 1952 Laurel, Jones County Mississippi
Spouse(s)	Chuck Blackburn
Children	Two children
Alma mater	Mississippi State University
Religion	Presbyterian

Marsha Wedgeworth Blackburn (born June 5, 1952) is a conservative Republican who has represented Tennessee's 7th congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives since her election in 2002.

A native of Laurel, Mississippi, and a graduate of Mississippi State University in Starkville, Blackburn resides with her husband, Chuck Blackburn, in Brentwood, a suburb of the capital city of Nashville. They have two children; she is a Presbyterian. Previously, she served in the Tennessee State Senate.

On November 6, 2018, in a bid for the United States Senate seat held by the retiring Bob Corker, a Moderate Republican and former mayor of Chattanooga, Blackburn expects to face the Democrat Phil Bredesen, a popular former governor of Tennessee. In late May 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump traveled to Tennessee to rally voters on Blackburn's behalf. Trump called Brednsen, who is backed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, an obstructionist to Trump's Make America Great Again agenda.