Sheila Frahm (née Sloan; born March 22, 1945) is an American politician who served in the United States Senate as a Republican from Kansas for a brief period in 1996.

[4] Eight days later, Governor Bill Graves announced that he would appoint Frahm to replace Dole.

He campaigned in favor of banning legal abortion and a constitutional amendment allowing school prayer, each of which Frahm opposed.

[9] Frahm was the first appointed senator to lose a party primary since Maryon Pittman Allen in 1978 and the last until Luther Strange did so in 2017.

For the 2018 gubernatorial election, Frahm joined many other high-profile Republican current and former legislators and politicians in endorsing the Democratic nominee, and eventual victor, Laura Kelly.