BIOGRAPHY
Jim Klauber
is a native
of Greenwood, South Carolina.
He graduated from The Citadel
in 1989 and was commissioned
as a Second Lieutenant in the
South Carolina Army National
Guard. He received a Juris Doctor degree from the
University of South Carolina in 1993 and earned his
Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the
University of South Carolina in 2009.
Klauber was elected to the Greenwood City Council
in 1990 and served for two years before being elected
to the South Carolina House of Representatives,
where he served for ten years. He was a partner
in the firm of Klauber & Long Attorneys at Law,
and in 2002, entered the field of higher education
administration at Piedmont Technical College where
he was named its Senior Vice President and General
Counsel in 2009.
Klauber was named President of Owensboro
Community and Technical College in Owensboro,
Kentucky in May 2010. He retired from the South
Carolina Army National Guard as a Lieutenant
Colonel in the Judge Advocate Generals Corps after
27 years of service, and completed a ten-month tour
of duty in Kosovo in 2003.
A licensed private pilot and scuba diver, he likes to
spend his spare time either a few thousand feet
above the Earth or thirty to forty feet under water.
He is married to the former Teresa Wyatt and has
three children, Bette, Jake, and Wyatt.