As a small business woman, author, mother, grandmother, and Member of Congress, Marsha Blackburn has dedicated her service to making America a more free and more prosperous place to live.
Marsha went to college on a 4-H scholarship and worked her way through school selling books for the Southwestern Company. She was one of their first female sales associates and one of their first female sales managers, assisting the company in establishing a division focused on women.

Senator Blackburn began her elected service career in 1998 as a Tennessee State Senator. While serving in the Tennessee Senate, Blackburn led a statewide grassroots campaign to defeat a proposed state income tax. While defeating the tax, she earned the reputation as a champion of anti-tax and government accountability issues, taking to the airwaves to make the case that government wrongly believes it never gets enough of the taxpayer’s paycheck.

Tennesseans sent her to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002 to represent the 7th Congressional District, where she continued the fight for accountable government and led the investigation into Planned Parenthood.

In 2018, Tennesseans voted overwhelmingly to send her to the United States Senate. She is the state’s first female Senator. Senator Blackburn serves on the Senate Finance Committee, which is one of the most powerful committees in the United States Senate, and she continues to serve as Deputy Whip and on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.

Marsha and her husband Chuck live in Williamson County, Tennessee. They have two children, Mary Morgan (Paul) Ketchel and Chad (Hillary) Blackburn; and three grandsons, and a granddaughter.

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