Arnold Kent Garr[1] (born June 14, 1944) was the chair of the department of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 2006 to 2009.
Garr married Cherie Burns in the Salt Lake Temple on November 20, 1967, and they are the parents of five children.
[2][3] Garr began his career with the Church Educational System (CES) as a seminary teacher at Roy High School in Utah.
He later served as director of the Institutes of Religion in Rochester, New York; Boulder, Colorado; and Tallahassee, Florida.
[4][3] He taught at the BYU Jerusalem Center during 1996–97 and was later the chair of the Department of Church History and Doctrine.