Former Mount Gambier teacher Penny Pratt is well-placed to enter State Parliament next year after winning Liberal Party endorsement for the rural seat of Frome.
It is being vacated at the 2022 poll by Independent MP Geoff Brock as a boundary redistribution has excluded his Port Pirie stronghold.
Ms Pratt began her teaching career at Melaleuca Park Primary School in Mount Gambier in 1997 and remained for a decade. Ms Pratt has been the chief of staff for Child Protection Minister Rachel Sanderson since 2018.