She currently serves as Practice Manager at Piedmont Women's Center, an anti-abortion, pregnancy support organization.
First elected to the state house in 2008, after defeating Gloria Arias Haskins in the Republican primary, Nanney worked for passage of a 24-hour abortion bill that requires women seeking abortion to wait 24 hours after they have arrived at the clinic.
In 2015 Nanney opposed removal of the Confederate flag from the war memorial on the South Carolina capitol grounds.
[2] In 2010 Nanney was the credit manager for Interfilm Holdings, a leading PET film converter and distributor for industrial markets.
She and her husband, Timothy Lee Nanney, Greenville County Register of Deeds, have five children.