Smith County Hires County Engineer

TYLER — Smith County has hired Frank Davis as its new county engineer. According to a news release, Davis will coordinate and implement a long range maintenance and improvement plan for the Smith County road system, which totals approximately 1,200 miles. Davis is a professionally registered engineer and land surveyor and graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in civil engineering. He brings more than 32 years of engineering and surveying experience to Smith County, with 11 of those years spent as city engineer and/or director of public works for three municipalities in Texas.

Davis is also a 26-year veteran officer of the United States Navy Reserve, where he served as a commander in the Civil Engineer Corps. Davis is a longtime Smith County resident who volunteers locally with the Boy Scouts of America and Tyler-Rose City Kiwanis Club and serves as a Deacon at Green Acres Baptist Church.