Melody Grant

Melody "Mellie" Margaret Grant (born March 26, 1971) is a Democratic Senator from North Carolina and former First Lady of Carolina.

Growing up in a wealthy family in Wilmington, North Carolina, Melody attended Cape Fear Academy from Kindergarten until 12th Grade. In 1989, she was accepted to Duke University graduating as Magna Cum Laude, and later attended Harvard Law School in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Grant returned to Raleigh, North Carolina and became a lawyer. However she quit her job in 2008 to become First Lady, following the election of her former husband Fitzgerald Grant as President of Carolina. She subsequently moved to Savannah, however was reportedly unhappy with her "ornamental" position. Following her divorce in 2011, Melody returned to North Carolina and ran for Senate in 2012. During the 2016 Presidential Election, Grant became a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. On February 12, she suspended her campaign for President and subsequently endorsed Nikki Haley. Grant has announced she will be running for reelection in the Senate in 2018.