Captain Campbell was born in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and raised in a Navy family across the Eastern/Southeastern United States and in Italy. He entered the Naval Academy in the summer of 1980 and graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in May 1984. He attended Navy Nuclear Power School and served on ships for 7 years. In the summer of 1991, Captain Campbell transferred to the Naval Civil Engineer Corps. He spent the next 21 years stationed across the Southeastern United States, the Gulf Coast, and overseas in Bermuda and Italy building and maintaining facilities for the US Navy and Marine Corps. He retired from the Navy in 2012 and is currently the Director of Facilities for Haverford College.

Captain Campbell has been married to his wife Ann Marie, of Randallstown, MD, for 35 years. They have two grown children.

Growing up in a Navy family and then serving for 32 years myself I always attended services with Navy Catholic chaplains. I have always been impressed with their sense of duty and self-sacrifice in serving our military community. I have known many outstanding Navy Catholic chaplains and when Archbishop Broglio asked me to help promote Father Capodanno’s Cause for Sainthood I told him I would be happy to help in any way I could.