Dr. Jim Klauber is a native of Greenwood, S.C. 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. He also served as law clerk to South Carolina Governor Carroll A. Campbell, before being elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives, where he served for 10 years.