| Brenda Lee | |
| State House: | South Carolina |
| District: | 31st |
| Term Start: | 1995 |
| Term End: | 2005 |
| Predecessor: | Donald W. Beatty |
| Successor: | Harold Mitchell, Jr. |
| Birth Name: | Brenda Lee |
| Birth Place: | Spartanburg, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Party: | Democratic |
Brenda Lee is an American politician. She was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 31st District, serving from 1995 to 2005. She is a member of the Democratic party.
Lee grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in a historically Black South side neighborhood,[1] graduating from Carver High School in 1966.
Lee was a page for Horry County South Carolina State Senator Jim Stevens in the 1990s, and later a campaign manager for Jim Clyburn's run for Congress. She was elected to the State Legislature in 1995, the first Black woman from Spartanburg County to serve. Lee was a legislator for a decade.
She served with numerous organizations, including the Urban League of the Upstate, the President's Advisory Committee of Wofford College, and the Spartanburg Development Council.[2]
In 2019, Lee invited Presidential candidate Kamala Harris to South Carolina, and endorsed her.[3]
In 2023, Lee received an honorary degree from Wofford College.[4]
Lee, along with co-authors Jim Neighbors, and Betsy Wakefield Teter, wrote the book North of Main: Spartanburg's Historic Black Neighborhoods of North Dean Street, Gas Bottom, and Back of the College, released in 2024. It includes cover remarks by historian Timothy Tyson.[5]
Lee is married to Caveril Pryce.