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 immediately chosen by his fellow Board members to serve as the County Commission’s Chairman for 2007. In 2008, he was also voted to serve as Chairman.

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 assumed increasing responsibilities until he became part owner in a Fayette County CPA firm in the mid eighties. In 1990, Jack and a partner founded what is now known as Smith, Conley and Associates, PC, one of the largest CPA firms on the south side of Atlanta. The firm prides itself in serving clients, both individuals and businesses, in numerous states and several foreign countries.

Jack has 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 the 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 developed and 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 Joseph Sams School, Inc., a Fayette County school for developmentally disadvantaged children, and 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. For twelve years he served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Fayette County Development Authority. Jack recently acted as Interim Treasurer of his church, where he has also served in numerous positions, including a two-year term as the church’s administrative board Chairman and Vice Chairman of the church’s first building committee. Jack 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. He has held positions in numerous non-profit organizations and has served in both paid and volunteer advisory positions for those and other not for profit groups over several decades. 

Married to Lael for over 35 years, they have two boys: Chris, an Auburn University Graduate who is married and living in Alabama and Casey, a student at Griffin Technical Institute.

 

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