Sheila McNeill | |
State Senate: | Georgia |
District: | 3rd |
Term Start: | January 11, 2021 |
Term End: | January 9, 2023 |
Successor: | Mike Hodges |
Birth Date: | 15 February 1943 |
Party: | Republican |
Sheila M. McNeill (February 15, 1943 – August 5, 2024) was an American politician from Georgia. McNeill was a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate for the 3rd district.
McNeill was elected to the Georgia State Senate for the 3rd district. She was vice chair of the natural resources and the environment committee, secretary of the veterans, military and homeland security committee and a member of the education and youth committee and the state institutions and property committee.[1]
McNeill and her husband, Arlie, resided in Kings Bay, Georgia. They had one daughter and four grandchildren.[2]
In 1995, McNeill acted as the founding president of the St. Marys Submarine Museum in Kings Bay, Georgia
She was the National President of the U.S. Navy League from 2003 to 2005. In 2019, McNeill published the book "What are You Doing Here?", in which she chronicled her experience as the first woman to hold this position.