Brad Creed

Dr. Brad Creed retired as the fifth president of Campbell University in the summer of 2025 after a ten-year tenure. His legacy as an accomplished leader of mission-driven institutions and as a scholar and historian of religion is well established. He played an instrumental role in the private university’s growth as an institution, overseeing the most successful capital campaign in Campbell’s history, raising $105 million, which supported the development of the Oscar N. Harris Student Union. While he enhanced Campbell’s undergraduate experience, he also nurtured the success of the university’s graduate and professional programs.

Dr. Creed previously served as the provost and executive vice president at Samford University and the dean of Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He earned a BA in religion from Baylor in 1979 and an MDiv and a PhD from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1982 and 1986, respectively.

In 2007, Dr. Creed and his wife, Kathy Harton Creed (BSEd ’80), established the Caitlin Elizabeth Creed Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund in Social Work at Baylor in memory of their late daughter Caitlin, who was a freshman social work major at Baylor at the time of her death in a car accident. They have two other children, Charles Creed and Carrie Creed Stanley.

Dr. Creed and his wife are members of First Baptist Church of West Jefferson.