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People in the Public Record

An index of public figures who have featured in Nancy Mace's widely reported political disputes, documented individually with media citations and neutral framing.

This section profiles individuals who have featured prominently in Nancy Mace's publicly reported political conflicts and exchanges. Each person is documented in a separate entry that summarizes, in neutral terms and with citations to news coverage, what was reported to have happened.

Editorial standard for this section

These entries describe public events involving public figures, drawn from contemporaneous news reporting and, where available, video or official records. They follow the same standards as the rest of the wiki:

  • Characterizations are attributed. Where a description originates with Nancy Mace (or with the other party), it is presented as that person's statement or allegation, not as an established fact.
  • Disputes are presented from both sides. Where the other party or third parties contested Mace's account, that response is included.
  • Allegations are labeled as allegations until and unless resolved by an official process, and matters that are the subject of active litigation are handled with additional caution or omitted.
  • Every claim is sourced to a dated news article, broadcast, or primary record. Entries are dated to when the underlying events were reported.

Profiles

  • Kevin McCarthy, 55th Speaker of the U.S. House (R-CA), removed October 3, 2023; Mace was one of eight Republicans who voted to oust him
  • Ely Murray-Quick, Charleston realtor and constituent who asked Mace about town halls at a Mount Pleasant Ulta Beauty on April 19, 2025; Mace's filmed expletive response went viral
  • Glenn Meadows, Chief of Police, Sullivan's Island Police Department; his department investigated and arrested Eric Bowman on harassment and stalking charges in April 2025
  • James McIntyre, advocate at the center of a December 2024 Capitol Hill encounter Mace publicly characterized as an assault
  • Sarah McBride, U.S. Representative (D-DE), focus of Mace's November 2024 Capitol restroom proposal
  • Ilhan Omar, U.S. Representative (D-MN) whom Mace moved to censure
  • Muriel Bowser, Mayor of Washington, D.C., questioned by Mace in a congressional hearing exchange
  • Cory Mills, U.S. Representative (R-FL) with whom Mace publicly clashed
  • George Santos, former U.S. Representative (R-NY) expelled from the House in 2023, whom Mace publicly branded a fraud and then declined to vote to expel, whose communications director she later hired, and who by 2026 was publicly urging Mace's staff to turn on her
  • Sara Jacobs, U.S. Representative (D-CA), subject of a Mace remark
  • Alan Wilson, South Carolina Attorney General and 2026 gubernatorial rival
  • Pam Evette, South Carolina Lieutenant Governor and 2026 gubernatorial rival
  • Dan Hanlon, a former Mace chief of staff, amid widely reported staff turnover
  • Lorie Khatod, a former Mace congressional chief of staff (2023-2024), hired amid the widely reported D.C. office turnover
  • Austin McCubbin, Republican operative who managed Mace's 2022 re-election and later resigned from her 2026 gubernatorial campaign
  • Doug Stafford, veteran Republican strategist who served as a spokesman for Mace's 2022 re-election campaign
  • John Mason Long, campaign manager for Mace's 2024 re-election campaign
  • Jamie Finch, senior adviser in Mace's congressional office; previously campaign political director
  • Sydney Long, former communications director for Mace's congressional office and gubernatorial-campaign spokeswoman
  • Gabrielle Lipsky, former communications director for George Santos whom Mace hired into the same role in January 2024, amid record turnover in her office
  • John Mace McGrath, Mace's nephew and a former 2024 campaign aide who is now chairman of the Berkeley County Republican Party; did not back her 2026 gubernatorial bid
  • Kristin Graziano, former Charleston County Sheriff, criticized by Mace over the Jamal Sutherland case
  • Harley Hicks, figure in a reported Mace controversy
  • Curtis Jackson, Mace's former husband and the father of her two children, son Miles (a full-time business student at the University of South Carolina) and daughter Ellison ("Eli"), who moved in with her father full-time in November 2023 despite the court-ordered joint custody; documented alongside Mace's public "single mom" self-description
  • Patrick Bryant, Charleston entrepreneur and Mace's former fiancé, publicly named in her February 2025 House floor speech; he denies the allegations and no charges have been filed
  • Eric Bowman, Charleston-area businessman named in the February 2025 floor speech and later sued by Mace for defamation; he denies the allegations
  • John Osborne, Charleston-area investor named in the February 2025 floor speech; he denies the allegations and no charges have been filed
  • Melissa Britton, Mount Pleasant businesswoman and estranged wife of Eric Bowman, named as a third-party defendant in Berg v. Bryant; she disputes the claims
  • Alexis "Ali" Berg, named plaintiff in Berg v. Bryant (initially filed as "Jane Doe"); she has publicly contradicted the account Mace presented to her; all matters unadjudicated
  • Sam Staley, Charleston-area technology executive and non-party witness subpoenaed in Assignment Desk Works v. Berg, where a publicly filed motion to compel characterizes him as having connected Alexis Berg with Rep. Nancy Mace; per the public Charleston County dockets he is an adverse litigant to Patrick Bryant in separate business cases, and he disputes those claims; all matters unadjudicated
  • Brian Musgrave, South Carolina private citizen named in the February 2025 floor speech who sued Mace for defamation; he denies the allegations
  • Vicki Pittman, North Charleston housekeeper and former employee of Patrick Bryant whose May 2025 sworn affidavit describes a Charleston airport encounter in which she says Mace pressed her to corroborate allegations about Bryant; she swears she declined and had no knowledge of the conduct alleged
  • Ashleigh Messervy, South Carolina journalist whose sworn affidavit (June 30, 2025) describes an August 2024 meeting at which she says Mace told her "I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone"
  • Eric Bland, founding partner of Bland Richter, LLP (Charleston/Lexington SC); co-counsel for Brian Musgrave in Musgrave v. Mace
  • Ronnie Richter, founding partner of Bland Richter, LLP (Charleston/Lexington SC); co-counsel for Brian Musgrave in Musgrave v. Mace
  • Wesley Donehue, Republican strategist and former Mace adviser whose deposition testimony about Mace was publicly reported
  • Jerry Theos, Charleston defense attorney who represented Eric Bowman; not personally accused of wrongdoing
  • Scarlett Wilson, elected Ninth Circuit Solicitor, the prosecutor for the cases tied to Mace's allegations, whom Mace publicly accused of leaking evidence and "obstruct[ing] the investigation" and demanded be recused, removed, and investigated
  • Barrett Brewer, Mount Pleasant attorney who represented Patrick Bryant and whom Mace publicly criticized
  • James Gosnell, Charleston County magistrate who is the subject of public statements by Mace

Counsel of record, Nancy Mace's attorneys

The attorneys and firms who have represented Mace across her cluster of lawsuits since 2023, with office contact information. For the full chronology of who represented her and when, shown as terms of service from appearance to withdrawal, see Nancy Mace's Lawyers: A Timeline of Counsel. None of these attorneys is accused of wrongdoing; each is documented in their professional capacity as counsel.

  • Jonathan H. Krell, Uricchio, Howe, Krell, Jacobson, Toporek & Keith, P.A. (Charleston); Mace's earliest documented counsel, sent the November 2023 preservation letter to Patrick Bryant
  • Steven J. Schmutz, Schmutz & Schmutz (Charleston); co-counsel on the November 2023 preservation letter
  • Kate Schmutz, Schmutz & Schmutz (Charleston); co-counsel on the November 2023 preservation letter
  • Andrew N. Rosenberg, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (New York); early co-counsel who joined November 14, 2023
  • Jim May, Wyche, P.A. (Columbia); co-counsel on the property dispute through the January 2024 mediation
  • John C. Moylan, Wyche, P.A. (Columbia); co-counsel on the property dispute through the January 2024 mediation
  • Peter M. McCoy, Jr., McCoy Law Group, LLC (Charleston); co-counsel through the January 2024 mediation; a former U.S. Attorney for South Carolina
  • Edward L. Phipps, The Phipps Law Firm, LLC (Charleston); took over as lead counsel in February 2024 and filed Mace's partition suit against Patrick Bryant
  • Mark R. H. Huber, The Phipps Law Firm, LLC (Charleston); co-counsel on the 2024 partition suit
  • Andrew B. Moorman, Sr., Moorman Law Firm, LLC (Greenville); lead counsel for Mace in her defamation suit against Eric Bowman
  • William M. Sullivan, Jr., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (Washington, D.C.); pro hac vice co-counsel in Mace v. Bowman
  • Alex G. Anderson, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (Washington, D.C.); pro hac vice co-counsel in Mace v. Bowman
  • Brian Finch, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (Washington, D.C.); among the Pillsbury attorneys on Mace's side in the GLT2 Rule 27 / sanctions matter
  • Robert J. Wyndham, Wyndham Law Firm, LLC (Mount Pleasant); represented Mace in the GLT2 Rule 27 matter and briefly in Berg v. Bryant
  • Mary Grace W. Maybank, Wyndham Law Firm, LLC (Mount Pleasant); co-counsel for Mace in the GLT2 Rule 27 matter
  • Victoria W. Kurtz, Johnston Law, LLC (Mount Pleasant); counsel for Mace in the Mace v. Bryant settlement-enforcement phase
  • John C. Johnston, Johnston Law, LLC (Mount Pleasant); counsel for Mace in the Mace v. Bryant settlement-enforcement phase
  • D. Craig Brown, The Law Office of D. Craig Brown, LLC (Florence); represented Mace as third-party defendant in Berg v. Bryant
  • Matthew B. Berry, Office of General Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives; institutional counsel in the Musgrave v. Mace federal suit
  • Robert Sneed, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Carolina (Greenville); represents the United States, substituted as defendant, in Musgrave v. Mace
  • Larry Klayman, Klayman Law Group / Freedom Watch (Washington, D.C.); publicly announced as retained for a threatened airport action
  • F. Cordes Ford IV, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (Charleston); counsel for Mace as Intervenor in Assignment Desk Works v. Berg
  • William J. "Bill" Hunter, Oliver Maner LLP (Savannah, GA); admitted pro hac vice for Mace as Intervenor in Assignment Desk Works v. Berg

See also