Catherine Templeton is an American attorney and political figure from South Carolina.
23 Facts About Catherine Templeton
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Catherine Templeton was a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of South Carolina in the 2018 election.
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Catherine Templeton grew up in Lexington, South Carolina and graduated from Irmo High School in 1989.
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Catherine Templeton worked for Roger Milliken and then earned a Juris Doctor in 1998 from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
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In 2009, Catherine Templeton got involved in a national education effort with retired United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor designed to increase civics knowledge among middle school students about the way government works.
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In 2010, Governor Nikki Haley asked Catherine Templeton to join then Governor-elect Haley's Cabinet as Secretary of Labor.
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Catherine Templeton had voted for Democratic State Senator Vincent Sheheen for governor in 2010 over then-State Representative Haley.
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On December 8,2010, Governor-elect Nikki R Haley appointed Templeton to be the South Carolina Director of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation.
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Haley and Catherine Templeton were subsequently sued by the AFL-CIO in federal court.
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Catherine Templeton cut staffing for the state's immigration enforcement program from more than 20 to three while head of the LLR.
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In 2012, Catherine Templeton was selected by the South Carolina DHEC board to be director at the agency.
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Catherine Templeton was confirmed as Director on February 28,2012.
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Catherine Templeton was director of DHEC during the Ebola virus cases in the United States in 2014.
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Catherine Templeton was responsible for South Carolina's "unusual display of resistance" and threatened to impose a $154M fine on the federal government for failing to meet its responsibilities at the Savannah River site.
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In 2012, after Senator Jim DeMint resigned from the United States Senate to become president of The Heritage Foundation, Catherine Templeton was placed on a short list of possible appointees to fill his remainder of his term, along with Senator Tim Scott, Congressman Trey Gowdy, and former First Lady of South Carolina Jenny Sanford.
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Catherine Templeton was summoned to Trump Tower to meet with President-elect Donald Trump when he was picking his cabinet, but she turned down a job in the US Department of Labor.
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When Trump's initial nominee, Andrew Puzder, withdrew from consideration, Catherine Templeton was one of four people who were considered for the post.
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In early August 2017, Catherine Templeton attracted controversy when she stated at a campaign event in Pickens County, "I am proud of the Confederacy," while saying that she supports the General Assembly's decision in 2015, following the Charleston church shooting, to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State Capitol.
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Catherine Templeton vowed, if elected governor, not to allow the removal of any Confederate monument in the state.
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Catherine Templeton took an anti-abortion position, saying that abortion should only be legal in cases of incest or when the woman's life was endangered by the pregnancy.
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In 2014, Catherine Templeton was awarded the Defender of Manufacturing Award by the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance.
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In 2010, Catherine Templeton was awarded the Compleat Lawyer Award of the South Carolina School of Law.
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Catherine Templeton is the mother of three children, including twins, and is married to Morgan Catherine Templeton, a business lawyer in private practice.