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Guilford County's Family Justice Center director to take leadership post at international agency

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Guilford County
Catherine Johnson, Director of the Guilford County Family Justice Center

Catherine Johnson, the director of Guilford County’s Family Justice Center, is leaving the organization.

The center celebrated its 10th anniversary in June, and Johnson has led the organization since the beginning. It has served more than 100,000 people and now has locations in Greensboro and High Point.

The multi-agency collaborative provides support to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse.

In a release, Guilford County Manager Victor Isler praised Johnson for her thoughtful and careful leadership.

Johnson is leaving her position to serve as President and CEO of Alliance for Hope International. The global nonprofit addresses the needs of survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Her last day with the Family Justice Center is Sept. 5.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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