Sheila Butt

Sheila Keckler Butt
Mayor of Maury County
Incumbent
Assumed office
August 30, 2022
Preceded byAndy Ogles
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
from the 64th district
In office
January 2011 – January 8, 2019
Preceded byJohn 'Ty' Tyler Cobb[1]
Succeeded byScott Cepicky
Personal details
Born (1951-11-20) November 20, 1951 (age 72)
Rockford, Illinois, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseStan R. Butt
Children3
ResidenceColumbia, Tennessee
EducationEast Tennessee State University (BS)
Websitesheilabuttstaterep.com

Sheila Keckler Butt (born November 20, 1951) is an American politician from Columbia, Tennessee, currently serving as the mayor of Maury County.[2][3] Butt is the former Republican Majority Floor Leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives and she formerly represented House District 64, encompassing the cities of Columbia, Mount Pleasant, and Spring Hill in parts of Maury County, Tennessee. She retired from the House in 2018, and she was replaced by Republican Scott Cepicky in the subsequent election.[3][4] On August 4, 2022, Butt was elected Maury County Mayor, succeeding incumbent Andy Ogles, who instead ran for an open U.S. House of Representatives seat.[5] Butt was sworn in as county mayor on August 30.[6]

  1. ^ http://ballotpedia.org/Ty_Cobb Ty Cobb. Ballotpedia.
  2. ^ "Tennessee Republican Party". Archived from the original on April 16, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Rep. Sheila Butt". Tennessee General Assembly. Archived from the original on February 15, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ Official website Archived 2013-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Powell, Jay (5 August 2022). "Election results: Ogles claims 5th Dist., Butt reigns as Maury mayor, Cepicky reelected". Columbia Daily Herald. Archived from the original on August 9, 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  6. ^ Williams, Toriana (30 August 2022). "Sheila Butt sworn in as Maury County's new county mayor". Columbia Daily Herald. Retrieved 31 August 2022.