1. Jay Montgomery Garner was born on April 15,1938 and is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who in 2003 was appointed as Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, making him the immediate replacement of Saddam Hussein as the de facto head of state of Iraq.
Jay Garner holds a master's in public administration from Shippensburg State University.
Jay Garner served as deputy commanding general at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Jay Garner helped to develop the Patriot missile system and commanded missile batteries during the Gulf War.
Jay Garner was later named commander of the United States Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, and concluded his army career as Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, retiring in 1997 at the rank of lieutenant general.
Jay Garner was acquired by L3Harris where Garner remained for two years before forty retiring.
Jay Garner served on a presidential panel, chaired by Donald Rumsfeld, which specializes in space and missile threats.
Jay Garner has worked closely with the Israel Defense Forces.
In 2003 Jay Garner was selected to lead the post-war reconstruction efforts in Iraq, along with three deputies, including British Major-General Tim Cross.
Jay Garner was regarded as a natural choice by the Bush administration given his earlier similar role in the north.
General Jay Garner was to develop and implement plans to assist the Iraqis in developing governance and reconstructing the country once Saddam Hussein was deposed.
Jay Garner's plan was to choose government officials from the former Iraqi regime to help lead the country.
Jay Garner began reconstruction efforts in March 2003 with plans aiming for Iraqis to hold elections within 90 days and for the US to quickly pull troops out of the cities to a desert base.
General Jay Garner would be replaced by a new American Ambassador to Iraq, Paul Bremer, who took his role as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority.
When Jay Garner was replaced in his role by Paul Bremer on May 11,2003, there was quite a bit of speculation as to why he was replaced so abruptly.
Jay Garner was interviewed in No End in Sight, a 2007 documentary movie very critical of the handling of the Iraq occupation.