Steve is very involved in community affairs, having served on numerous civic and business boards. In conjunction with his business activities, he has served on the Metropolitan Nashville Planning Commission, the Regional Transit Authority, and was both member and chairman of the Board of Directors of Metropolitan Nashville Parks and Recreation. He served on the Advisory Board of First Union National Bank, the Board of Directors of Franklin Road Academy, and is currently serving his third term on the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati.

Steve attended Middle Tennessee State University, studying business finance, and earned 3 letters on the varsity baseball team, winning the Ohio Valley Conference Championship in 1976. He served on the Board of Directors of the Blue Raider Athletic Association, is on the President’s Council, chaired the recent search committee naming the new Athletic Director, and was inducted into the Blue Raider Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. Currently he is spearheading the effort to raise $5,000,000 to build a new world-class baseball facility named after his father, Reese L Smith, Jr., at MTSU.

Always involved in politics, from local city and county races to state and national elections, he served as National Finance Co-Chair for Lamar Alexander’s Presidential campaigns. He also achieved the level of Super Ranger (one of 3 in Tennessee) in President Bush’s 2004 campaign. He is presently the National Finance Chairman for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s leadership political action committee, VOLPAC and Finance Chair of Lamar Alexander’s 2008 re-election campaign.