Dr. Charlotte Redden Hamilton is a native of Columbia, South Carolina, and is the Dean of the College of Social Sciences at Saybrook University, online in Pasadena, California.

Before her current role, she served as the interim Dean of Academic Affairs and Operations at South University, Columbia campus. At South University, she was the department chairperson of all clinical mental health counseling programs at 9 South University campuses, and she was an associate professor and Program Director for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at South University in Columbia, South Carolina, where she oversaw full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, and over 175 clinical mental health counseling and professional counseling students for over 8 years.