Jeff graduated from Crisp County High School in Cordele, Georgia, the self-proclaimed "watermelon capital of the world." Yes, they had a festival, a parade, a queen, and a seed-spitting contest.
After a long, circuitous college career, he graduated from Georgia Southwestern College with a degree in business and later earned a Master of Business Administration degree from West Georgia
College. Jeff served as a helicopter crew chief and a medical service corps officer in the U.S. Army, including getting shot at by Saddam's finest in Iraq in 1991. He married the lovely and talented
Gwen Leetch in 1989, and they have two beautiful daughters who they wouldn't trade for all of the gold in Fort Knox. Jeff served as a licensed local pastor in the United Methodist Church for two
years. Other post-college, post-Army experience is in general business management.