Christine Guillory Named Chief Legal Counsel

Grady recently announced Christine Guillory has been named Chief Legal Officer, succeeding Tim Jefferson, who retired at the end of 2025.

Christine is a seasoned legal executive and business strategist with more than two decades of experience advising complex public-facing organizations across health care, government, nonprofit and corporate sectors. She brings a thoughtful, collaborative approach to governance, risk management and decision-making, particularly in environments where legal integrity, public trust and organizational mission intersect.

Most recently, Christine served as associate general counsel at Ochsner Health, a nonprofit health system serving patients across the Gulf South, where she guided strategic legal planning for 46 hospitals, 100 health centers and more than 40,000 team members. In this role, her counsel to executive leadership addressed regulatory compliance, contracting, innovation risk, crisis response and policy development amid rapidly evolving state and federal legislation.

Her work included guiding legal strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic, advancing crisis standards of care, strengthening end-of-life policies, and supporting national efforts to address the opioid epidemic through clinically integrated, physician-centered tools.

As Chief Legal Officer at Grady, Christine will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and the Board of Directors. She will be responsible for overseeing the organization’s legal, governance and compliance functions, including enterprise risk management, regulatory and statutory compliance, complex contracting, litigation oversight and support of public-facing partnerships and programs. The Chief Legal Officer plays a critical role in translating legal and regulatory complexity into clear, durable guidance that enables Grady to advance its mission while maintaining the highest standards of integrity, accountability and public stewardship.

Christine is widely respected for her steady judgement, collaborative leadership style, and ability to navigate complex issues involving multiple stakeholders and sustained public scrutiny. She is a graduate of the USC Gould School of Law and Emory University, where she earned a bachelor of arts in international studies and Italian studies.