Classmate Update: Holley Johnson Grainger

After graduating from John Carroll, Holley Johnson Grainger attended the University of Alabama. She graduated in 2001, and moved to Charleston, South Carolina to complete her dietetic internship at the Medical University of South Carolina.

 

After her internship, she moved back to Birmingham and began working as a registered dietitian and Food Editor at Oxmoor House, the book publishing division at Time Inc. (then called Southern Progress).

 

During her more than 10 years at Time Inc., Holley was the Food Editor at Southern Living magazine and then the founding Food and Nutrition Editor at MyRecipes.com and CookingLight.com.

 

In 2009, she married Brent Grainger, a Homewood High School grad, who ironically knew just as many people at JCHS as Holley. They now have two little girls, Ellie, 6 and Frances 3.

 

Nearly five years ago, Holley founded HJG Communications, LLC. She works as a nutrition and lifestyle consultant, speaker, and spokesperson for various brands and commodities. She is also a food/mommy blogger at Holley’s Kitchen. Her job allows her the flexibility to be a fulltime mom, a fulltime business woman, and an entrepreneur. She’s been on numerous local and national television shows and has hosted more than 800 online cooking videos – both for herself and the Time Inc brands. Her job has allowed her to travel all over the country and the world including:  Prague, Vienna, Madrid, Vancouver and more.

 

Holley is the lead planner for the JCHS Class of ’97 Reunion and she can’t wait to see the months of planning come to fruition this weekend.