Ted A. Campbell was born in Beaumont, Texas, in 1953. He was educated at Lon Morris College, the University of North Texas, Oxford University, and Southern Methodist University. He has served as pastor of United Methodist congregations, and has taught at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Duke Divinity School, Wesley Theological Seminary. He served as president of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary from 2001 through 2005, and now serves as Professor of Church History at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
He is a charter member of the International Society Opposed to Dangling and Otherwise Distracting Microphones in Worship Sanctuaries (ISoDoDMiWS). Actually, the only member.
Ted Campbell and his wife, Dale Marie Campbell, reside in Dallas, Texas.