Dr. Karry Guillory

Dr. Karry Guillory has served on the SC Center for Fathers and Families Board of Trustees since 2002. 

Dr. Guillory has served as Deputy Director of Community Services at the Department of Juvenile Justice since 1999.  In this position, he is responsible for over 800 staff members and a $65 million budget serving over 25,000 youth across the state of South Carolina.  His areas of responsibility include 43 DJJ county offices, 11 wilderness camps, five group homes, three regional evaluation centers, one statewide detention center, 20 Ph.D. level psychologists performing community evaluations and numerous prevention/arbitration/intervention/placement programs across the state.

Dr. Guillory has almost twenty years of organizational development and community coalition-building experience.  In addition to the SC Center for Fathers and Families, he serves on various boards and advisory committees across South Carolina, including St. Paul's Catholic School Board and the Friends of Juvenile Justice Foundation Board.

Dr. Guillory is a graduate of Leadership South Carolina and Harvard University's Leadership and Management Development Institute.  Prior to his current position, he had 16 years of senior management experience at five different colleges and universities in three states.

He was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow in 1995 where he traveled around the United States meeting with educational leaders in preparation of becoming a university president.

Dr. Guillory is originally from the southern region of Louisiana.  He obtained his doctorate in higher education management and leadership at the University of Arkansas in 1985.  In 1987, Dr. Guillory was nomintated by President Clinton to serve as an ambassador to Mexico and South America for several months through Rotary International's Leadership Program.