Nancy Mace
Nancy Ruth Mace (born December 4, 1977) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district since 2021. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served in the South Carolina General Assembly from 2018 to 2020. The congressional district she represents comprises a six-county area in the southern portion of the state.
In 1999, Mace became the first woman to graduate from the Corps of Cadets program at the Citadel Military College of South Carolina, which was led at the time by her father, Emory Mace, the commandant of cadets.[1][2] From 2018 to 2020, she represented the 99th district in the South Carolina House of Representatives, covering Hanahan, northeast Mount Pleasant, and Daniel Island. In 2020, Mace was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, defeating incumbent Democrat Joe Cunningham and becoming the first Republican woman elected to Congress from South Carolina.[3] She was re-elected in 2022 and 2024. In August 2025, Mace announced her candidacy for Governor of South Carolina in 2026.
Mace was born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to United States Army brigadier general James Emory Mace and schoolteacher Anne Mace.[4][5][6] Her father served as commandant of cadets at the Citadel from 1997 to 2005.[2][7]
In 1999, she became the first woman to graduate from the Citadel's Corps of Cadets program,[6] earning a degree in business administration magna cum laude.[8] She wrote In the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel (Simon & Schuster, 2001) about the experience.
In 2004, she earned a master's degree in journalism and mass communication from the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.[9][10]
In 2008, she founded the Mace Group, a public relations and consulting firm.[11][12]
She became co-owner of the website FITSNews, which she had begun working for in 2007, and then sold her stake in 2013. The site covers South Carolina politics and current events.[13][14]
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