Sheila Keckler Butt (born November 20, 1951) is an American politician from Columbia, Tennessee, currently serving as the mayor of Maury County.
[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.
[7] Butt also says in her book, Everyday Princess: Daughter of the King, that while she never drank alcohol or used drugs growing up, she did "date plenty of boys".
[7] Butt later received a Bachelor of Science cum laude in English with a History minor from East Tennessee State University[3] and is also a 1980 Women's Certificate Program graduate of the Bear Valley School of Biblical Studies.
[3][4][self-published source] She sponsored HJR 199, a resolution to federal government to follow Tennessee model of a balanced budget, and co-sponsored HB0007 for Voter Identification.
Butt was reportedly commenting on an open letter from the CAIR urging potential Republican presidential candidates to reject Islamophobia and reach out to American Muslim voters.
CAIR representatives stated the reference to "NAAWP" is an apparent racist twist to the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP.
[16] Butt responded to the backlash resulting from her NAAWP statement in part by stating: "It saddens me that we have come to a place in our society where every comment by a conservative Christian is automatically scrutinized as being racist".
[18] Butt's remarks were criticized on the floor of the Tennessee House of Representatives as "dangerous and insulting" by TNGA Rep. Sherry Jones who in part stated, Yesterday we heard a lot of unsettling things on the floor, from bogus descriptions of women's health clinics to a member of this body [TNGA Rep. Sheila Butt] actually saying that the violent crimes of rape and incest are, quote, not verifiable.
Butt has asked the attorney general to issue a "Consumer Alert" to raise public awareness about the group's "potential fundraising abuses".
[20] Butt contended that HSUS uses deceitful advertising to attract donors while using donations to pay "inflated salaries and promote a liberal anti-agriculture agenda."
[3] Butt met Stan at Tennessee Technological University where married, and Sheila left school after one year to start working.
[24][25] Another of Butt's sons, Cliff Butt, was arrested by the Maury County Sheriff Department on May 7, 2015, for allegedly contributing to the delinquency of a minor with his buying alcohol for a 17-year-old Columbia Academy student who then brought the alcohol to an off-campus prom night party attended by twenty other Columbia Academy students who reportedly consumed beer at the event.