Nancy Guilliams, Director of Administration

In December 2003, Nancy W. Guilliams was appointed Director of Administration, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  Mrs. Guilliams formerly served as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Administration with the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2003.  

Mrs. Guilliams began her career as a federal employee at the Pentagon with the United States Army.  As Chief of Facilities Assessment from 1991 to 1993, she provided enterprise–wide cost and feasibility analysis and alternatives for senior Army leadership decisions.  Promoted to Chief of the Plans Division in 1993, she managed the community planning for the Army’s real property inventory and the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) construction and restoration programs. 

Mrs. Guilliams’ civilian education includes a Bachelor of Arts from Pembroke State University, NC.  She is a 1994 graduate of the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, VA and a 1997 graduate of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle PA.  Upon returning from graduate school at Carlisle, Mrs. Guilliams served in the Army Budget Office where she managed the Army Family Housing budget and privatization of family housing across the Army.  In 1998 she was promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff for Support for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers where she was responsible for administrative support functions Corps wide as well as the  headquarters operating budget.