Jeff Webster

Webster serves as a member of the 2019-2020 Advisory Grassroots Panel for the Rockingham County Arts Council.

In 2015 he placed second in the Tennessee State Open Majors Division in Lebanon, Tennessee. In 2019 Webster was ranked 47th in the nation and 103rd in the world.

Webster married Annie Herger Manning in 2008. In 2009 he underwent a quadruple bypass at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital.

Webster is the son of James Jefferson Webster II and Mary Elizabeth Comer. He grew up in Stoneville, North Carolina and graduated from Stoneville High School in 1983. He is a grandson of James Jefferson Webster, who served as county commissioner of Rockingham County. Through his paternal grandmother, Nannie Hurt Strong, he is descended from Scottish emigrants George Irving and Jane McDonald, who came to the United States in 1834 from Closeburn, Dumfriesshire aboard the Hector, and is a descendant of the Colonial Virginian Robertson family. Webster is the nephew of checkers champion Captain John Ray Webster.

Webster began playing checkers at his grandfather's general store when he was a child. He was the United States youth national champion in checkers in 1981. On December 31, 1981 he competed in the World Youth Checkers Championship in Bristol, England. He defeated Andrew Knapp, the English national champion, and won the title of World Youth Checkers Champion.

James Jefferson Webster III (born 1966), also known as Jeff Webster, is an American competitive checkers player and musician. Webster was the National Youth Checkers Champion in 1981 and the World Youth Checkers Champion in 1982.