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Mike Smith received a bachelor's degree in Natural Resources Management in 1977 and a bachelor's degree in Recreation Resources Administration from North Carolina State University in 1983. He is a 6-year veteran of the United States Marine Corps with service in the Republic of South Viet Nam in 1967-68. He is presently a Life Member and Commander of Russell Chadwick Post #389 of the American Legion in Beverly, Ohio, and a Life Member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 5108, in Marietta, Ohio.

Mike started his Federal Career with the National Park Service and transferred into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the early 1980s. His entire career with USACE has been with the Regulatory Branch, overseeing work in waters and wetlands of the United States, pursuant to the River and Harbor Act and the Clean Water Act. He has worked in both the Nashville and Wilmington Districts.

He also worked for the Assistant Secretary of the Army (CW) in 1992 and retired as the Acting Chief of the Regulatory Branch at Headquarters, US Army Corps of Engineers, in 2002. He has worked with FEMA on disaster recovery efforts for Hurricanes Hugo, Fran, Floyd, Katrina and Rita.

Mike came out of retirement as a Rehired Annuitant to assist in the Louisiana Recovery effort and deployed to the Joint Field Office in Baton Rouge on September 11th, 2005.

He was the ESF #3 Action Officer for the construction of the Victim Identification Center in Carville, La., and upon the completion of that Mission became the Action Officer for the Critical Public Facilities Mission. Mike became the ESF #3 Action Officer for Debris at the Transition Recovery Office on September 11th, 2006, and the Assistant Director of the LA-RFO in October 2006.

Mike and his wife Anne (also a Marine Veteran) have been married for over 40 years. They have 3 children and 7 grand children.