Under his leadership, Commissioner Campbell has implemented many initiatives that have provided substantial savings for the taxpayers of Tennessee and have resulted in a well managed system of the 21 adult facilities and the Tennessee Correction Academy in Tullahoma. The assignment of wardens, a utilization board to review contracts, recycling and waste management, reorganization of facility warehouses and commissaries, stricter inmate policies, and medical co-payments by inmates are just a few of the initiatives Campbell has implemented during the Sundquist administration.

Campbell's career in the criminal justice sytem and in state government began 22 years ago when he was a dormitory attendant at the Tennessee Reception and Guidance Center. In December 1975, he transferred to the former Criminally Insane Hospital in the Department of Mental Health as a psychiatric Technician. When the hospital became the DeBerry Correctional Institute (DCI), Campbell was reclassified as a Correctional Officer with the Department of Correction in August 1977. In his nearly six years at DCI, he held the positions of corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, and captain.

In July 1984, Commissioner Campbell was promoted to Associate Warden of Security at Turney Center Industrial Prison and appointed warden in November of the following year.

He held this position until his appointment in February 1989 as Regional Administrator of the Middle Tennessee Region. On January 21, 1995 he was appointed commissioner by Governor Sundquist.

Campbell was born in the Middle Tennessee town of Lewisburg in Marshall County. He has a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from Tennessee State University. He is 44 years old and his wife, Annette, is a school teacher in Nashville.

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