---
type: Person
title: "Rodger Smitherman"
description: "AL Senate District 18 — AL State Senate District 18"
role: "AL Senate District 18"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "AL"
district: "AL State Senate District 18"
represents: "us/states/al/districts/senate/18"
tenure:
  start: "1995-11-08"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "00704e28-bf5f-4cfd-a86f-b9680a84985f"
  office: "1df09c68-6538-46f6-8148-4549d1f54869"
  tenure: "45608fbf-9d28-48bd-b350-0d4530c0ebc8"
  jurisdiction: "a79f6d49-e4e4-48bf-a574-932b37f19d9b"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, al]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Rodger Smitherman

Current AL Senate District 18 (AL State Senate District 18).

Represents [AL State Senate District 18](/us/states/al/districts/senate/18.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).