  Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches seek to determine the nature of
neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective
Majorana neutrino mass. The {\sc Majorana} Collaboration is assembling an array
of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in
$^{76}$Ge. The {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} is composed of 44.8~kg (29.7 kg
enriched in $^{76}$Ge) of Ge detectors in total, split between two modules
contained in a low background shield at the Sanford Underground Research
Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The initial goals of the {\sc Demonstrator} are
to establish the required background and scalability of a Ge-based,
next-generation, tonne-scale experiment. Following a commissioning run that
began in 2015, the first detector module started physics data production in
early 2016. We will discuss initial results of the Module 1 commissioning and
first physics run, as well as the status and potential physics reach of the
full {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} experiment. The collaboration plans to
complete the assembly of the second detector module by mid-2016 to begin full
data production with the entire array.
