Virginia Shehee

Who is Virginia Shehee?

Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee is a civic leader in Shreveport, Louisiana, who served from 1976 to 1980 as the state senator from District 38 in Caddo and DeSoto parishes. Shehee won her seat in the 1975 general election by twenty-three votes over incumbent fellow Democrat, the late Cecil K. Carter, Jr. She was defeated in 1979 by Democrat, Richard G. Neeson, who retained the seat until 1992.

Sheehee is the first woman elected to the Louisiana Senate without succeeding a husband. In May 1936, Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes of Greensburg in St. Helena Parish in southeastern Louisiana, was appointed to the state Senate upon the death of her husband, Thomas Myers Holland. Thereafter, Doris Holland then won a special election for the seat. In 1940, she switched to the Louisiana House of Representatives and remained in that position until 1948.

In 2014, Shehee is listed by the Louisiana secretary of state's office in Baton Rouge as a registered Republican.