Part of: Musgrave v. Mace (2:25-cv-01823-RMG)
After 23 Lawyers, Nancy Mace Is Now Pro Se
After cycling through 23 different attorneys since 2023, Nancy Mace is now representing herself in court, including in the third-party complaint against her in the Berg litigation. This is the timeline, with every date and every case.
After cycling through 23 different attorneys since 2023, Nancy Mace is now representing herself in court.
According to court filings, Mace is currently proceeding pro se in the third-party complaint against her, Bryant v. Mace, inside the Berg v. Bryant litigation. Last week, in early September 2026, she filed on her own, asking the state court to stay that case while she pursues an appeal in the related federal court matter. After twenty-three lawyers, a sitting member of Congress is now writing and filing her own motions.
That is where a three-year revolving door of attorneys has ended up. The timeline reads like a carousel. Mace retained her first counsel in November 2023 for evidence preservation. Over the next two years she cycled through firm after firm: a mediation team in early 2024, the Phipps firm through that fall, House and federal counsel in 2025, then Moorman and Pillsbury, then still more firms into late 2025.
Then, on January 21, 2026, she fired them all. Mace filed pro se, representing herself, telling the court she had "relieved my previous counsel." Two days later she declared she had "stood in front of the judge, representing myself," and moved her case to federal court. She would not stay self-represented for long. By March 9, 2026 she was back with a major firm, Womble Bond Dickinson, alongside Oliver Maner, in the Assignment Desk Works v. Berg matter.
In a March 9 email later revealed in court, Mace wrote that "while I have thoroughly enjoyed being pro se, so much so it's made me want to go to law school," she could not attend an upcoming hearing. But the pro se chapter was not over. On June 30, 2026, she filed pro se yet again, this time in her own defamation case, Mace v. Bowman. And now she is pro se once more, in the Bryant third-party complaint against her.
The cases
- Mace v. Bryant, a partition and property matter
- Mace v. Bowman, a defamation case (pro se as of June 30, 2026)
- Musgrave v. Mace, a defamation case
- GLT2 v. Mace, a Rule 27 pre-suit petition
- Berg v. Bryant, where Mace first appeared pro se on January 21, 2026, and where she now proceeds pro se on the Bryant v. Mace third-party complaint against her
- Assignment Desk Works v. Berg, where Mace returned to counsel with Womble Bond Dickinson and Oliver Maner
Twenty-three lawyers. Multiple firms hired, relieved, and re-hired. Now representing herself again in the case against her. The complete attorney-by-attorney timeline, with every date and every case, is documented at Maceopedia with citations to the Post and Courier, Live5News, FITSNews, Fox Carolina, the South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index, and PACER.
Sources: Maceopedia: Nancy Mace's lawyers | Post and Courier | Live5News | FITSNews
Read next
September 14, 2026 · DispatchMace Goes Pro Se, Moves to Pause State Case While Appealing Federal Ruling
After cycling through 23 attorneys since 2023, Rep. Nancy Mace is now representing herself pro se in the Bryant v. Mace state case. According to court filings, she filed motions last week asking the Charleston County court to stay proceedings while she appeals the federal remand order.
September 8, 2026 · DispatchMace claimed she took "about six weeks" off the campaign after her father died. She was on a debate stage seven days later.
On September 1, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told journalist Tara Palmeri she left the campaign trail 'for about six weeks' after her father died April 14, and 'probably didn't raise any money' or 'make any phone calls at the end.' The public record contradicts the timeline at every point: she appeared in a formal multi-candidate debate at the College of Charleston on April 21, seven days after his death and two days before his April 23 funeral. By May 8, her X archive shows full campaign activity. On May 27 she posted '18 hours on the campaign trail today.'
September 4, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace, on Piers Morgan: 'I don't believe there's been genocide in Gaza'
On the September 1, 2026 Piers Morgan Uncensored panel, Rep. Nancy Mace was pressed repeatedly by a fellow panelist to call the war in Gaza a genocide and refused, saying, 'I don't believe there's been genocide in Gaza.' She defended Israel without qualification ('I think Israel is protecting Jews as they should. I support Israel'), rejected a two-state solution ('This has been Israel's land'), and, asked to condemn the killing of civilian children in Gaza, pivoted instead. A panelist confronted her over pro-Israel PAC money, calling her 'bought and paid for.'
September 2, 2026 · DispatchMace Calls Herself an 'Empty Nester' on Camera: She Has Joint Custody of Her Daughter
On Capitol Hill on September 1, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told TMZ she is an 'empty nester and single' and got a puppy 'so I could have a baby to take care of.' Mace has joint custody of her 17-year-old daughter from her 2019 divorce from Curtis Jackson. 'Empty nester' is a term for parents whose children have grown and left the home, not parents with joint custody of a minor. Her own words on camera confirm her daughter is not living with her.
September 2, 2026 · Dispatch'Don't Trans My Dog': Mace Catches Burchett Misgendering Her Havanese on Capitol Hill
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) walked into a TMZ interview on Capitol Hill, joked that Mace's Havanese puppy Millie bit him, then misgendered the dog. Mace told him: 'Don't trans my dog.' Burchett defended himself: 'I'm not transing your dog.'
September 2, 2026 · Dispatch"I'd rather feel a needle than go talk to a therapist": Mace ties tattoos to three years of trauma, on camera with TMZ
On Capitol Hill, Sept 1 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told TMZ on camera that her tattoos are 'definitely related to the trauma I've been through the last three years' and that she would 'rather sit and feel a needle than go talk to a therapist.' She went on to say tattoo-getting is part of a healing process she shares with many women who have been through trauma.