Jay Garner

Jay Montgomery Garner ( born April 15, 1938 in Arcadia, Florida, United States ) is a retired lieutenant general of the United States Army. After the invasion, the US-led Allied Forces in 2003, he was briefly first civilian chief administrator of Iraq.

Garner joined the Army and studied at Florida State University. In 1962 he received a degree as a historian. Within the American armed forces, he quickly made career and was twice as a soldier in Vietnam.

After his active military service, he was to January 2003 President of the California defense contractor SY Coleman, a subsidiary of L- 3 Communications, who are specialists in electronic missile guidance systems.

As a close friend of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, he became the first civilian administrator of Iraq after the invasion in March 2003. As Director of the " Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance " (Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance; ORHA ), he was entrusted with the control of civil affairs in the immediate postwar period. He should primarily focus on the reconstruction of basic structures and the restructuring of the Iraqi ministries. But in his work, there was soon criticized because of the reconstruction of the country is not making progress fast enough. Therefore, he was replaced on 11 May 2003, Paul Bremer.