---
type: Person
title: "Shelly Short"
description: "WA Senate District 7 — WA State Senate District 7"
role: "WA Senate District 7"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "WA"
district: "WA State Senate District 7"
represents: "us/states/wa/districts/senate/7"
tenure:
  start: "2017-02-01"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "fe2e4bf3-183c-4808-9698-ac5b5baeafc8"
  office: "c2eb8d8d-837d-443d-9a66-9bfaba08a1b9"
  tenure: "1ae11ec1-2275-4f6c-bd49-41d9f313e294"
  jurisdiction: "a6fc8a56-ee1e-400c-97cb-8ed6a1790c3a"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, wa]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Shelly Short

Current WA Senate District 7 (WA State Senate District 7).

Represents [WA State Senate District 7](/us/states/wa/districts/senate/7.md).

## Sources

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

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