Rep. Joan Brady Joan Brady is serving her third term as a representative from District #78 of Richland County in the South Carolina Legislature.

Brady began her career in the public arena in broadcasting at WCOS radio while earning a BA in journalism at USC. She was the first woman in S.C. to do the news. While living in the City of Arcadia and raising three children: Emily, Kevin, and Dillon, she became involved in the neighborhood watch. When someone suggested she run for mayor, she and her children made signs and knocked on doors campaigning.

She was elected mayor of the town of Arcadia and served from 1997–2000. Brady was elected to Richland County Council where she served until 2004. She has been in the South Carolina House of Representatives ever since. To list her involvement in organizations would take an

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Star; however some of her passions are the welfare of women, families, and chil- dren. She has written two bills to reform foster care and adoption. As State Director of the National Foundation of Women Legislators, a board member of the Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics, State Director of Women in Government, and chairman of the South Carolina General Assembly Women’s Caucas, Brady wants to motivate women to run for political office because South Carolina has the least percentage of women in the legislature of any state in the U.S.

To contact Representative Brady, email BradyJ@schouse.org or call 734-3027.