Campbell attended Manning High School where he was a captain on the football and basketball teams his senior year and was a third-team all-state linebacker.

Campbell studied US-Japanese bilateral relationship in Osaka, Japan as part of his Morningside College education through an exchange program with Kansai Gaidai University from 1992 until 1993.

Campbell, through the Iowa Sister States program, further was a guest of the Taiwanese Ministry of Education for the 1995 International Seminar on Chinese Studies in Taipei.

[1] Campbell is a founding member of the Iowa chapter of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation Alumni Association having served as its president for its first two years of existence and was the director of the 1992 Sioux City Community Leadership and Educational Workshop for high school youth at Morningside College.

In 2003, Campbell was a juror in State of Iowa vs Rodney Heemstra, a first degree murder case filed in Warren County but moved to Sioux City due to extensive pretrial publicity.

Campbell most recently served as the South region lead for international tax, working primarily with nonpublic companies averaging between $20 million and $300 million in annual revenue, for BKD, LLP in Houston, Texas, the nation's 10th largest accounting and auditing firm in the nation.

He has participated in Praxity global tax conferences and works with companies expanding into markets abroad or which have ongoing worldwide operations.