PERSON: Nancy Mace

South Carolina State Representative

Nancy Ruth Mace is an American businesswoman, politician, and the author of the memoir In the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel, first published by Simon & Schuster in 2001, about her experience in becoming the first woman to graduate from The Citadel. Nancy Mace is a South Carolina State Representative for District 99 covering Hanahan, northeast Mount Pleasant, and Daniel Island, South Carolina. Mace announced in June 2019 that she would seek the Republican nomination for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, anchored in Charleston and currently Represented by Joe Cunningham (D-West Ashley). Cunningham won in an upset in a district Donald Trump won by 13 percentage points in 2016. Mace will face Mount Pleasant City Councilwoman Kathy Landing and Bikers for Trump founder Chris Cox in the Republican primary on June 9, 2020.