Nancy Smith Schaefer (28 June 1936 – 26 March 2010[1]) was an American politician and conservative legislator who served in the Georgia State Senate from 2004 to 2008.
She subsequently ran for Mayor of Atlanta in 1993, before running as the Republican Party's nominee for Lieutenant governor of Georgia in 1994,[2] where she lost to incumbent Democrat Pierre Howard.
[3][4] She unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Governor in 1998, finishing in third place behind Guy Millner and Mike Bowers with 7.7% of the vote in the party's primary election.
[3] She had also sought to wrest the Republican nomination for Georgia's 10th congressional district from Paul Broun in 2008, but withdrew her candidacy before the primary election.
[2][9][10] A few years before her death she had published and promoted the report "The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services", leading to conspiracy theories surrounding her murder.