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| Katherine Jenerette served as a Congressional Staff Assistant and Field Representative to U.S. Rep. Henry E. Brown, Jr., 1st Congressional District, South Carolina and is presently a member of the North Myrtle Beach Planning Commission and the Horry County Envision 2025 Planning Commission task force committee.
Katherine is a US Army veteran and served in the Persian Gulf War during Operation Desert Storm with the 3d Armored  Division Headquarters. After coming home from the war, she attended the University of South Carolina, Coastal Carolina Campus on a Cross Country and Track scholarship. While in the Army, she competed in the 1990 U.S. Army Europe Track and Field Championships and as a 'walk-on' at USC/CCU, Katherine was recognized as one of the regions top runners when she was named to the NCAA Track & Field Big South Conference in 1994 while competing for Coastal Carolina University. Still an active runner, she has competed many races in the district area in recent years. She graduated from CCU with a degree in History in 1995 and received her Masters Degree from USC, Columbia in 1997 and is an Adjunct Professor of History at Southeastern College.
Katherine first met her husband, Van, while they were both serving in the military; years later, after returning to civilian life and being reintroduced, they married, and now have four children, Christian, Benjamin, Drake, and Wilson and live in North Myrtle Beach. Van teaches Sociology at Coastal Carolina University and Political Science at Southeastern Community College. She attends services at the First Baptist Church in North Myrtle Beach and is an associate member of the Protestant Huguenot Church of Charleston.
Katherine is a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10804, the North Myrtle Beach Citizens Association. She is also a member of the I-73 Association and a charter member of the North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce. Katherine was the last CEO of the Myrtle Beach Area Hospitality Association before it closed it's offices and joined the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce as part of a 'corporate style' merger.
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| Photo: Katherine Jenerette, South Carolina Senate District 28 at the State Capitol, Columbia.
Photo by: Scott Malyerck, Executive Director, SC GOP
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QUICK FACT: Senate Election 2004
As the Republican candidate for the South Carolina Senate in 2004, Katherine scored an upset victory in Horry County, including North Myrtle Beach which makes up nearly 70% of the SENATE District population. She nearly unseated one of the most powerful ‘Good Old Boy’ Democrat Senators in the state Sen. Dick Elliott, who had never lost an election in Horry County, and was first elected to public office in the segregation era of 1962.
Senator Elliott managed a slim victory mainly because of his Democrat base in Dillon, Marlboro and Marion Counties.
Jenerette missed sending Elliott into retirement by a mere 1,880 votes out of over 30,500 votes cast in a race that would have made her the only female Republican Senator in the State of South Carolina.
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Last Revised: Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 7:25:45 AM
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