---
type: Person
title: "Margie Bright Matthews"
description: "SC Senate District 45 — SC State Senate District 45"
role: "SC Senate District 45"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "SC"
district: "SC State Senate District 45"
represents: "us/states/sc/districts/senate/45"
tenure:
  start: "2015-10-27"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "f156384c-f294-4791-a0ff-079bbd3385ce"
  office: "ead59028-f11b-4e0b-bff1-00fc86096b80"
  tenure: "84e20cb9-c0b5-4929-816c-59ff13b24a0e"
  jurisdiction: "6ba5476a-83c1-4d67-b0a5-bc30d1d8ab7d"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, sc]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Margie Bright Matthews

Current SC Senate District 45 (SC State Senate District 45).

Represents [SC State Senate District 45](/us/states/sc/districts/senate/45.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).