Marlon Kimpson

Marlon E. Kimpson is an American politician and attorney. He served in the South Carolina Senate from 2013 to 2023. He served as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations in the Office of the United States Trade Representative during the presidency of Joe Biden.

Early life and education

Kimpson attended Morehouse College, graduating in 1991, and the University of South Carolina School of Law, graduating in 1999. He is a lawyer at Motley Rice.

Kimpson won a special election to succeed Robert Ford in 2013 representing the 42nd district in the South Carolina Senate. In 2023 he was actively working to pass a hate crime law in South Carolina.
In January 2020, Kimpson announced his support for the Joe Biden presidential campaign in the competition for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kimpson was selected as one of seventeen speakers to jointly deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
On March 10, 2023, President Biden published his intent to appoint Kimpson and thirteen others to the, a committee established by the Office of the US Trade Representative, part of the Executive Office of the President. Kimpson announced that he would vacate his South Carolina Senate seat later in 2023 to take up the appointment.
Kimpson attended the 2024 Democratic National Convention as a Sixth Congressional District delegate.