Mace, Nancy Ruth a Representative from South Carolina; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., December 4, 1977; graduated from Stratford High School, Goose Creek, S.C., 1995; attended Trident Technical College, Charleston, S.C.; B.A., The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C., 1999; M.S., University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 2004; author; public relations consultant; real estate broker; unsuccessful candidate for nomination for United States Senate for the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress in 2014; presidential campaign aide; member of the South Carolina state house of representatives, 2018-2020; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress (January 3, 2021 – Present).