Craig Eaton Campbell (born March 24, 1952)[1][2] is an American politician and businessman who served as the president and CEO of the Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC).

He joined the corporation as chief operating officer in February 2011, and was appointed president and CEO by the board of directors in October 2012.

[3] Prior to his position at AAC, Campbell was the tenth lieutenant governor of Alaska, holding the office from August 10, 2009, through December 6, 2010.

[5][6] Campbell left office in December 2010, after having withdrawn from the Republican primary race for lieutenant governor,[7] which was eventually won by Mead Treadwell.

[9][10] In 2010, Campbell opted to not seek election as lieutenant governor, preferring to return to the business sector and joining AAC in February 2011.

[1] He is married to wife Anne Marie and has two children: Amanda and Melanie (deceased), and four grandchildren: Faith, Ellie, Kimberly and Emma.

[12] He was raised in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma on a Reserve Officer's Training Corp. (ROTC) scholarship, and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.

In 1999, he earned a Master of Arts degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island.

During his stay at Vandenberg, he attended classes and earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Golden Gate University in nearby San Francisco, California.

[11] In 1994, Campbell again unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Anchorage, coming in third out of a field of fourteen candidates in the non-partisan, municipality-wide election.