Virginia Ruth Kilpatrick Shehee (July 12, 1923 – July 6, 2015) was a businesswoman, civic leader, and patron of the arts in Shreveport, Louisiana, who served from 1976 to 1980 as the state senator for District 38 in Caddo and DeSoto parishes. Shehee won her seat in the 1975 general election by twenty-three votes over incumbent fellow Democrat, the late Cecil K. Carter, Jr. She was defeated in 1979 by another Democrat, Richard G.