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Retired Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and entrepreneur Lieutenant General Joe Nathan Ballard was born on March 27, 1942, in Meeker, Louisiana. Ballard grew up in Oakdale, Louisiana, the son of sharecropper parents, where he attended Allen Parish School for Colored Youth. As a child, when his mother told him that his father could not read, it became Ballard's mission to teach his father to read. He read his father, the Bible until 1960 when he went away to college. Ballard attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, majoring in electrical engineering. He graduated in 1965 and joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Ballard went on to earn an M.S. degree in engineering management from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 1972. He also graduated from the Engineer Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Army Command and General Staff College, and the Army War College.

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