Representative Nancy Mace

Congresswoman Nancy Mace grew up in the Lowcountry. She is the daughter of a retired Army
General and retired school teacher.
Before being sworn into Congress, Nancy earned accolades as one of the most fiscally
conservative members of the South Carolina General Assembly; she’s also one of the most pro-
conservation lawmakers in the state of South Carolina.
Nancy grew up in Goose Creek, S.C. And when she dropped out of high school at the age of 17,
her parents said, “If you’re going to stop going to school, you got to start going to work.” She
immediately became a waitress at the Waffle House on College Park Road in Ladson (exit 203).
Nancy earned her high school diploma a few months later by taking college classes at Trident
Technical College in North Charleston.
She graduated magna cum laude from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina,
where she was the school’s first female to graduate from its Corps of Cadets in 1999. In 2004
Nancy earned a masters degree from The University of Georgia. Go dogs!
She is the author of In The Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel, published by Simon &
Schuster in 2001.
In 2008 Nancy started her own company. Her background in business is in technology, PR &
marketing and more recently commercial real estate before coming to Congress.
Nancy is the recipient of the 2019 Taxpayer Hero Award from the South Carolina Club for
Growth; she has a 100% record of voting to lower taxes. Nancy is also the recipient of the
Champion Award from Palmetto Goodwill in her efforts in education and in helping those most
in need receive job training; she has a 100 percent rating with Conservation Voters of South
Carolina.
Nancy is a single mom of two children ages 12 and 14. She also has two cats, Tyler and Tiger,
and a puppy named Liberty.