Meet Josh

Joshua Reagan Longmire was born in 1981 in Jonesboro, Arkansas and raised in Hoxie, Arkansas. He was born to Bob Longmire Sr. (Deceased) and Lea Cohn of Monette, Arkansas. Josh attended and graduated from Hoxie High School in 1999. He played many sports such as baseball, basketball, football, golf, and track and field. Josh was intrigued with politics at an early age and became the State Chair for the Arkansas Teenage Republicans. After high school he attended Arkansas State University in Jonesboro where he graduated in 2003.

While attending Arkansas State University he met his wife, Jennifer Hall Longmire. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Order Fraternity, Chairman of the College Republicans, and various other organizations on campus. Outside of college life, Josh was also working a full-time job at Zales Jewelers to support himself through school. He was later elected at the age of 18 to the position of Chairman of the Lawrence County Republican Committee as well as the Republican member of the Lawrence County Election Commissioners. This led to Josh’s run for the state legislature in 2002 while a senior at Arkansas State.

After graduating from Arkansas State in 2003 Josh and his wife Jennifer were married in 2004. Then the newlyweds moved to Russellville, Arkansas in 2005 where he went into operations management for Zales Jewelers and managed the Russellville location for a year. In 2006 he was given the opportunity to return to manage the Jonesboro location. During his 13 years in management for Zales, Josh was recognized with many awards including the runner up for Manager of the Year for Zale Corporation.

In 2011 Josh and Jennifer were blessed with the birth of their son Jackson Reagan Longmire. After a career in retail, Josh decided he needed a career change since he was starting a family. In 2012 Josh was offered a position at Camfil Air Pollution Control in Jonesboro where we managed sales accounts and supported the company’s distribution representatives throughout the Midwest United States. Camfil APC is a company that manufactures dust collection and air filtration equipment for industrial applications.

Shortly after beginner work at Camfil, Josh was elected to Justice of the Peace for Craighead County in 2012 and has been serving the citizens of Craighead County for almost 14 years. Josh is currently the Chair of the Finance Committee and oversees the counties operating budget of $71 million. While serving on the Quorum Court he has managed to cut wasteful spending by asking all departments to reduce their budgets by 5% within his first 2 terms on the court. In recent years, he has been a part of adding a new Court House expansion with added court rooms to streamline and make the judicial process in Craighead County more efficient for all taxpayers as well as working with the Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce to make Craighead County more attractive to industry and create more job growth.

Josh left his role at Camfil in 2016 when the President of Camfil, Lee Morgan, left the company and bought an Arkansas-based company, The Systems Group, where Josh has worked since 2016. The Systems Group offers a suite of services specifically for the Steel Industry. Josh started as the Systems Plant Services Blytheville, Arkansas Area Operations Manager and oversaw running all the teams and a fabrication and machine shop that supported Nucor Steel Arkansas, Nucor Yamato Steel, Nucor Steel Memphis, Nucor Skyline, Atlas Tube, Tenaris, Arkansas Steel Newport, and various other industrial operations.

Josh was tasked with starting a new division for The Systems Group in 2019. Josh began offering filtration systems to the steel mills to protect the air people breathe and to keep the metal dust out of critical equipment such as electrical rooms and various other areas. They opened an office in Jonesboro and support steel mills and other industrial facilities all around the world. A growing business segment, Josh is currently overseeing operations.