Shelia Hoar Zahm is an American cancer epidemiologist specialized in pesticides and cancer, the etiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and occupational cancer among women. She was deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's division of cancer epidemiology and genetics from 1998 to 2011.
Shelia R. Stubbs is an American politician, pastor, and former probation and parole agent. She is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, elected in 2018, representing the south and west parts of Madison, Wisconsin. She is also a member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors, since 2006; she is the only African American on the County Board and is Dane County's first African American representative in the Wisconsin Legislature.
Shelia P. Moses is an African-American writer whose subjects include comedian Dick Gregory and The Legend of Buddy Bush. In 2004, she was nominated for the National Book Award and named the Coretta Scott King Honoree for "The Legend of Buddy Bush" In 2009, her novel "Joseph" was nominated for the NAACP Image Award.
Shelia Nash-Stevenson is an American engineer. She was the first person to graduate from the Alabama A&M University physics masters program, where she was a NASA Fellow. She worked at Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA). Her professor, M. C. George, encouraged her to enter a PhD program. She was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in physics at the Alabama A&M University in 1994.
Yeah, this is definitely not pronounced like Sheila. Plus, it looks like "she Lia", as if someone with bad grammar was trying to introduce someone named Lia.
While I do like the name Sheila, I don't like this spelling. The switching of the letters around makes me want to pronounce it differently. I pronounce Shelia "she-LEE-uh" instead of "SHEE-luh". And I find "she-LEE-uh" quite hideous.