Mallory Dittmer

Mallory Dittmer grew up moving between her mother's home in a Chicago suburb and her father's home on her grandfather's southern Indiana farm.¹ She got her first job at 14 and says her mother, who raised five children while building businesses, helped shape her approach to work.¹

Dittmer entered the workforce during the 2008 recession and spent 15 years building partnerships with fashion brands including Kate Spade and Coach, according to her campaign biography.¹ She describes becoming a vice president at 33, managing teams, negotiating agreements and working with large budgets.¹

She and her husband, Drew, a high school history teacher, settled in Fort Mill in 2020 and have two children.¹ Dittmer began managing political campaigns in 2022 and attended the Campaign School at Yale in 2025, a program offering political campaign training.¹ She describes herself as a moderate and says she wants to work with Democrats, Republicans and independents on legislation.²

Dittmer proposes protecting rural hospitals, improving Affordable Care Act coverage and changing insurance authorization rules so patients can obtain necessary treatment.³ She also supports congressional term limits, a ban on congressional stock trading and independent redistricting, presenting these as ways to reduce political conflicts of interest.² She faces Republican Wes Climer.⁴