Katrina Frye Shealy is a politician, and a member of the South Carolina State Senate. At the time of her election to SC-23 she was the only woman in the South Carolina Senate but is now one of five women currently serving in the South Carolina State Senate. In her first term Shealy served on the Agricultural and Natural Resources committee, Corrections and Penology committee, Fish, Game and Forestry committee, General committee and the Judiciary committee and in 2015, Shealy was elected First Vice Chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. In 2015 Shealy created a non-profit organization, Katrina’s Kids, to serve children in Foster Care and Group Homes across all 46 counties in South Carolina.
Shealy was reelected to serve a third term on November 3, 2020. She now serves on the Finance Committee, Labor, Commerce and Industry, Rules, Family and Veteran Services, which she chairs, and Corrections and Penology. She is the first Republican woman to serve as chair of a Standing Committee in the South Carolina Senate.
