Sherri Smith Buffington [SEP] position held
Sherri Smith Buffington
Sherri Smith Buffington, formerly Sherri Smith Cheek (born August 1966), is a businesswoman and lobbyist from Shreveport, Louisiana, who is a Republican former member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 38 (south Caddo and DeSoto parishes). Buffington is the first female Republican ever to have been elected to the Louisiana Senate.
Term-limited, Buffington could not seek a fourth term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 2015. Cloyce Crincrick Clark, III, who vowed "New
supported cloning in the past, eight Democrats and two Republicans, Montgomery and Sherri Smith Buffington of Shreveport. Cheek, the successor to former Senator Ron Bean, was elected to a second term in the primary. Buffingtons former seat is now held by the Democrat John Milkovich. 
Montgomery led the primary with 7,524 votes (29 percent) to Shaw's 6,676 ballots (22 percent). Under unique Louisiana rules, the two met in the general election even though both are of the same party. Shaw is considered the more