---
type: Person
title: "Shay Shelnutt"
description: "AL Senate District 17 — AL State Senate District 17"
role: "AL Senate District 17"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "AL"
district: "AL State Senate District 17"
represents: "us/states/al/districts/senate/17"
tenure:
  start: "2014-11-05"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "86f141dc-b1b4-43af-a389-c3529914bf66"
  office: "0772e969-5ef5-4c17-a654-4db96989f063"
  tenure: "f5e1484d-3b74-46cf-b680-37ec72f68361"
  jurisdiction: "da2cd2a3-6634-4ea5-b12a-3c9b5b6dbfbc"
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"
---

# Shay Shelnutt

Current AL Senate District 17 (AL State Senate District 17).

Represents [AL State Senate District 17](/us/states/al/districts/senate/17.md).

## Sources

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

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