Jeff Venable currently is the District Engineer with the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, District Seven, Camden, Arkansas. He is a 1978 graduate of Louisiana Tech University with degrees in Engineering and Land Surveying and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Arkansas and a Registered Civil Engineer in Louisiana.  

Beginning in the fall of 1972, Jeff Venable has 42+ years of experience in the construction and engineering related field including 5.5 years working for a roadway contractor, 4.5 years as an engineering consultant, and 32.5 years with the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department. While with the Arkansas Highway Department, he has held the positions of Assistant-to-Resident Engineer, Field Engineer I and 2, Advanced Field Engineer, Assistant Resident Engineer, Resident Engineer, District Maintenance Engineer, and currently, District Engineer in District 7, Camden.

Jeff Venable has worked in various locations with the Department, starting with 3.5 years in the Hope Resident 32 office, 9 years in the Hot Springs Resident 64 office, 6.5 years in the West Little Rock Resident 65 office, 6 years in the Camden Resident 74 office, 6 years in Camden District as District Maintenance Engineer and 1+ years in Camden as District Engineer. Over his career, he has been involved with numerous roadway and bridge construction projects, various maintenance projects as well as several municipal streets, drainage, and land development projects.

Jeff Venable is originally from Hot Springs, Arkansas and has been married to Debbie Venable of Ruston, LA for 42+ years. They have 2 sons, Scott and Shawn Venable, and granddaughter, Lorelai. 

David is the author of the forthcoming book,” When Life Throws You Curves, Keep Swinging.” He is an inspirational speaker with a truly unique story of overcoming hardship, living life to the fullest and motivating young men and women to achieve their full potential in sports and in life.

As a baseball coach in the collegiate and high school ranks for 29 years, David earned 470 victories – despite the fact that he walks on two prosthetic legs and never played the game of baseball himself. David also coached as an assistant football coach for eight years, girls weightlifting for seven years, girls basketball three years and boys cross country for three years.

His story inspires others to overcome obstacles in their own lives and achieve their own success. He is a former head coach of Campbellsville University in Kentucky, where he led the team to a Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship in 1987 — the first baseball conference championship in the history of the school.

David has had 10 district champion teams, eight district runner-up teams, two state final four teams, and one state runner-up team. He was a 10-time coach of the year recipient in various divisions. He has also coached baseball in Holland, Spain, Czech Republic, Sweden, Australia, Puerto Rico, Italy, Curacao, and Hawaii. David has worked as an associate scout for the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians and Tampa Bay Rays.

David, who recently retired from coaching, lives in Louisiana with his wife, Susan, and their three children.

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