Nancy Lacore

Nancy Lacore met her husband, Pat, after flight school; both were Navy helicopter pilots.¹ They have six children, including a Marine, a police officer, two technology professionals and two nursing students.¹ The couple now lives in Mount Pleasant after decades of military moves.¹

Lacore attended the College of the Holy Cross on a ROTC scholarship and graduated in 1990 before her Navy commission.¹² After her first decade on active duty, she joined the Reserve and worked remotely as a defense contractor for ten years, a job she says helped balance work and raising children.¹ Her deployments included Afghanistan in 2011 and Djibouti in 2017.¹

She rose to vice admiral and became chief of Navy Reserve in 2024.² Removed from that post in August 2025, she subsequently retired after 35 years in the Navy.²³ In 2014, she ran 160 miles over six days to honor servicewomen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.⁴ She founded the nonprofit Valor Run, which operated for a decade before closing.¹

Her campaign priorities include affordability, healthcare and protecting the Lowcountry's environment.⁵ She proposes barring private equity firms from buying homes and improving military pay, housing and affordable childcare.³ She faces Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt and Libertarian Bill Reeside.⁶