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Jack Smith was elected in 2006 to Post 4 on the County Commission, one of the County’s two “at-large” posts. Upon taking office in January, 2007, he was chosen by fellow Board members to serve as the Board Chairman for 2007 and has been elected to serve in that position for each of the three calendar years since.

Jack is a native of Central Georgia and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Accounting from the University of Georgia. Earning his CPA certificate in 1977, Jack became part owner in a Fayette County CPA firm in the mid eighties and in 1990, Jack and a partner founded what is known today as Smith, Conley and Associates, PC. The firm serves clients, individuals and businesses, in numerous states and foreign countries.

Jack attained extensive public accounting and management experience over the last three decades and has been instrumental in engineering, updating and implementing various types of tax, technology and profit improvement plans for individuals and small businesses. His responsibilities include technical responsibility for all facets of income taxes for clients, as well as electronic systems for both clients and his firm.

Jack and his firm are members of all major industry trade and professional organizations and adhere to the principles and practices as recognized by those groups as technically, ethically and morally correct. Jack has presented seminars and facilitated discussion groups for clients, industry trade groups, governmental associations and his peers.

In addition to his role as an elected official, Jack is Treasurer of the Fayetteville Rotary Club where he has held numerous positions, including President. He is Vice Chairman of the Fayette County Public Facilities Authority, and a board member of the Griffin Technical School Foundation, the Bank of Georgia and the Joseph Sams School, Inc., a Fayette County school for developmentally disadvantaged children, where he served as Treasurer for 10 years. Jack is active in his church where he has held numerous including Interim Treasurer, a two-year term as the church’s administrative board Chairman and Vice Chairman of the church’s first building committee. For twelve years he served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Fayette County Development Authority and is a Past President of the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce, a Past President and life member of Optimist Clubs International and a former member of the Lions Club. In addition, he has been an advisor to many non-profit organizations over several decades.

Jack has served as a board member of the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) for four years (including 2010) and as a member of the Executive Committee, the Pension Board of Trustees and the Transportation and Air Quality Committee, to which he was named chairman for 2010. For 2008 and 2009, Jack served as ARC’s Treasurer and chaired the Budget and Audit Review Committee. For 2010 Jack will also serve as a member of the Policy Committee and Regional Transit Committee and be an advisor to the Budget and Audit Review Committee.

From 2007 until its conclusion at the end of 2008, Jack was a member of the Transit Planning Board (TPB) and participated in the design and adoption of a model transit system for the entire metropolitan Atlanta area. In 2009 Jack was named to the Transit Implementation Board (TIB), the successor organization to TPB, and served until its sunset at the end of 2009. In 2010 the ARC’s Regional Transit Committee was entrusted with completion of the TIB mission to design a regional governance model to operate the transit system envisioned by TPB when funding for that system is secured.

In addition to ARC, Jack is involved with the Association County Commissioners of Georgia where he has served as a member of the Group Health Benefits Program Board since 2008, and the Metropolitan North Georgia Water District Planning Board where he served as a member for 2007 through June 2009. In September 2009 Jack was appointed to the Governor’s Water Contingency Planning Task Force and served until it issued its final report in December 2009.

In the 2007, Jack completed a training program sponsored by the Association County Commissioners of Georgia and became a Certified County Commissioner. In 2009 Jack completed the highest level of certification available to County Commissioners in Georgia and received the designation of Advanced Certified County Commissioner from the Association County Commissioners of Georgia and the University of Georgia. Jack is the first County Commissioner from Fayette County to ever achieve this pinnacle and one of only about 200 in the entire state to ever earn this advanced designation.

Married to Lael for over 38 years, they have two boys: Chris, an Auburn University Graduate, married and living in Alabama and Casey, a student at Griffin Technical College.

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