Age, Biography, and Wiki
- Age: Born on December 4, 1977, Nancy Mace is 47 years old.
- Biography and Wiki: Nancy Mace is celebrated for her achievements in politics and education. She made history as the first woman to graduate from The Citadel in 1999. Her political career has been marked by her service as a U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district since 2021.
| Occupation | Politician |
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| Date of Birth | 4 December 1977 |
| Age | 47 Years |
| Birth Place | Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Sagittarius |
| Country | U.S |
Height, Weight & Measurements
Currently, there is no publicly available information on Nancy Mace's height, weight, or measurements.
In December 2024, Mace said that foster youth activist and children's advocate James McIntyre threatened and physically assaulted her during a handshake at a foster care youth advocacy event. McIntyre was subsequently arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on charges of assaulting a government official and was jailed overnight. In court documents, Mace stated that McIntyre "began to aggressively and in an exaggerated manner shake her arm up and down in a hand shaking motion," with "her arm flailing for about 3-5 seconds." According to Mace, McIntyre had said, "Trans youth deserve advocacy," and Mace described herself as being "in shock" and "intimidated". At least three witnesses disputed Mace's description of the handshake, saying they saw nothing but a "routine handshake". Another witness stated that McIntyre "took her hand with both of his hands and shook her arm up and down in an exaggerated, aggressive handshaking motion". Mace refused paramedics' assistance, but stated in court documents that she felt "pain in her wrists, arm and armpit/shoulder due to the incident".
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Dating & Relationship Status
Nancy Mace has been involved in two relationships and is a mother of two children. However, specific details about her current relationship status are not widely available.
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. 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, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first Republican woman elected to Congress from South Carolina. She was re-elected in 2022 and 2024.
Mace has supported efforts to limit access to abortion. In 2021, she cosponsored the Life at Conception Act, which would recognize a fertilized egg as a person with equal protections under the 14th Amendment and establish a nationwide abortion ban. Describing herself as "staunchly pro-life", she has also criticized abortion bans enacted in some states and called for Republicans to be more moderate on the issue, and said she would only support legislation that "has exceptions of rape or incest and the life of the mother". Expounding on her views, she stated: "The vast majority of people want some sort of gestational limits, ... not at nine months, but somewhere in the middle. They want exceptions for rape and incest. They want women to have access to birth control. These are all very common-sense positions that we can take and still be pro-life." Mace has voiced support for gestational limits of 15 to 20 weeks.
Mace's first marriage was to Chris Niemiec, a lawyer and JAG Corps officer in the United States Air Force Reserve. After they divorced, Mace married Curtis Jackson, with whom she had two children. They divorced in 2019. Mace became engaged to Patrick Bryant in 2022, but the couple broke up in 2023. She said that she broke off the engagement after finding Bryant on a dating app, a claim he denied. In February 2025, she gave a speech in the House of Representatives where she accused Bryant and three other men of physical abuse, rape, and sexual misconduct against her and other women. All the men strongly denied her accusations, with her ex-fiancee adding that she had notably voiced them only in Congress in order to shield herself from the legal liability to which she would be exposed had she made those accusations anywhere else. The following month, one of the men Mace accused, Brian Musgrave, sued her for defamation.
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| Husband | Chris Niemiec (m. 1999-2002) Curtis Jackson (m. 2004-2019) |
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Net Worth and Salary
- Net Worth: Estimates of Nancy Mace's net worth vary, with some sources suggesting it is around $8 million as of 2024. Other estimates range from around $3.40 million to a wide range of -$4,783,986 to $4,089,998, indicating potential liabilities.
- Salary: As a U.S. Representative, Nancy Mace earns an annual salary of $174,000.
In February 2023, Mace, along with representatives Randy Weber (R‑TX 14th), Lizzie Fletcher (D‑TX 07th), Abigail Spanberger (D‑VA 07th), Don Davis (D‑NC 01st), and Anna Eshoo (D‑CA 16th), introduced the Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems Act, which aims to share federal offshore wind power revenue with states for coastal protection and restoration work. The bill was also introduced in the Senate.
Career, Business, and Investments
- Career: Nancy Mace's political career began with her election to the South Carolina House of Representatives. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020 and took office in 2021.
- Business: Before entering politics, Mace ran a public relations firm, which contributed to her income.
- Investments: Her wealth includes real estate holdings, such as properties in Mt. Pleasant, Charleston, South Carolina, valued between $1 million and $5 million. She also holds bank accounts and IRAs with significant value.
In 1999, she became the first woman to graduate from the Citadel's Corps of Cadets program, earning a degree in business administration magna cum laude. She wrote In the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel (Simon & Schuster, 2001) about the experience.
In June 2019, Mace announced that she would seek the Republican nomination for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, centered in Charleston, and at the time represented by Democrat Joe Cunningham. Cunningham won the seat in 2018 in a surprise victory, winning a district Trump had carried by 13 percentage points two years earlier. Mace faced Mount Pleasant city councilwoman Kathy Landing and Bikers for Trump founder Chris Cox in the June 9 Republican primary. During her primary campaign, she ran an advertisement stating she would "help President Trump take care of our veterans", and in which Vice President Mike Pence called her "an extraordinary American with an extraordinary lifetime of accomplishments—past, present and future." She won the primary with 57.5% of the vote.
On October 3, 2023, Mace voted in favor of removing Kevin McCarthy, a fellow Republican, from his position as speaker of the House. According to Mace, "McCarthy did not follow through on pushing her legislation to address the country's rape-kit backlog, expand access to birth control, adopt a balanced budget amendment and create an alert system that would notify people when there is a mass shooting". McCarthy, who had been a strong ally of Mace's, denied her claims. Following his ouster, Mace took to media, describing him as "a loser" who was "bored and doesn’t know what to do with himself." Mace stated that she had never liked McCarthy since she joined Congress, baffling district Republicans who questioned why she had turned on her ally. Berkeley County Republican Party chair Victoria Cowart said "one of the sentiments I get the most is that she's talking out of both sides of her mouth."
On October 2, 2023, the House of Representatives passed a cybersecurity bill titled the MACE Act, intended to modernize federal cybersecurity job requirements. The bill was introduced by Mace and would be the last bill passed under Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Mace's legislative staff named the bill after her as a joke about Mace's ego.
Mace, while initially supportive of LGBTQ rights when first elected to the House, shifted to a significantly more hostile position around and after the 2024 presidential election campaign.
Mace was one of 31 Republicans to vote for the LGBTQ Business Equal Credit Enforcement and Investment Act. Mace was the lone Republican to sponsor H.R.5776 - Serving Our LGBTQ Veterans Act, legislation establishing a Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Veterans within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Among other functions, the center must serve as the department's principal adviser on the adoption and implementation of policies and programs affecting veterans who are LGBTQ.
At a DOGE subcommittee hearing in May 2025, Mace accused Fatima Goss Graves, CEO of the National Women's Law Center, of sexual grooming, saying "I didn't come here to play with an ideology hell-bent on erasing women and grooming children. That's what you all are, you're groomers."
Social Network
Nancy Mace is active on various social media platforms, using them to engage with her constituents and discuss political issues. However, specific details about her social media presence, such as follower counts, are not provided in the available information.
After the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Mace pleaded with Trump to condemn it. While locked down in her Capitol office she told CBS News' Red & Blue host Elaine Quijano, "I'm begging the president to get off Twitter." Ultimately Mace voted against impeaching Trump, however, stating that due process had not been properly followed. She would later come to Trump's defense after he was indicted for mishandling classified documents.
The NAACP challenged the map, but after hearing oral arguments in October 2023, the Supreme Court reversed the lower court's ruling in a 6–3 decision in May 2024, finding that the legislature's redistricting decisions were driven by partisan goals, specifically to increase District 1's Republican vote share, rather than by race. The Court emphasized that while race and partisan preference are highly correlated in South Carolina, the use of political data for partisan aims is not constitutionally prohibited even if it results in racial disparities. The Court also noted that the plaintiff's decision not to provide an alternative map was an "implicit concession" that it could not draw one that would prove racial discrimination while achieving the same partisan outcome. The dissenting justices argued that the majority's approach would make it significantly harder to challenge racial gerrymandering in the future. In response to the ruling, Mace stated, "It reaffirms everything everyone in South Carolina already knows, which is that the line wasn't based on race."
In 2021, Mace was among a handful of Republican representatives who did not sign onto an amicus brief to overturn Roe v. Wade. She criticized states enacting abortion bans without exceptions in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. In an interview on Face the Nation, she said she disagreed with the recently passed abortion ban in Florida, which was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis: "Signing a six-week ban that puts women who are victims of rape and girls who are victims of incest and in a hard spot isn't the way to change hearts and minds. It's not compassionate. The requirements [DeSantis] has for rape victims are too much, not something that I support. It's a non-starter. I am a victim of rape. I was raped by a classmate at the age of 16. I am very wary, and the devil is always in the details, but we've got to show more care and concern and compassion for women who've been raped. I don't like that this bill was signed in the dead of night".
On November 18, 2024, Mace introduced a resolution to prohibit "Members, officers, and employees of the House of Representatives" from using single-sex facilities (like restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms) in the Capitol or House Office Buildings that don't correspond to their "biological sex". She specified in her press release that the bill was intended for transgender women, and said in an interview that newly elected Delaware representative Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of the United States Congress, was "absolutely" the target of her bathroom resolution. Mace described McBride as a "biological man trying to force himself into women's spaces" and as a "guy in a skirt", later following this up by saying "It's offensive that a man in a skirt thinks that he's my equal".
On November 20, Mace introduced the Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act, which goes beyond her prior resolution to prohibit anyone from accessing or using single-sex facilities on any federal property unless that facility corresponds to the person's "biological sex", except for emergency medical personnel during an emergency or law enforcement officers during active pursuit or investigation. As some trans activists were protesting her bill, Mace referred to them using the anti-transgender slur "tranny", resulting in her posts on some social media being flagged for hateful content.
Education
Nancy Mace is a graduate of The Citadel, where she earned a degree in 1999, becoming the first woman to do so. Her educational achievements are a significant part of her biography and have influenced her career path.
This overview provides a comprehensive insight into Nancy Mace's life, career, and financial status as of 2025.
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.
Mace was one of seven Republicans who publicly refused to support their colleagues' efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election on January 6, 2021. These seven signed a letter that, while giving credence to Trump's allegations of electoral fraud, said Congress did not have the authority to influence the election's outcome. Mace was so concerned by the hostile atmosphere Trump was generating in the District of Columbia that she sent her children home to South Carolina before the congressional vote to accept the Electoral College votes.
On May 18, 2021, Mace joined 61 other House Republicans to vote against the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which condemned acts of hate against Asian Americans and streamlined data collection and reporting about such occurrences. The bill previously passed the U.S. Senate on a 94–1 vote. Mace said she opposed the bill because it did not address discrimination against Asian-Americans in higher education.
