[1] She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in computer science from Grambling State University in 1975.
[5] She was a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles, where she worked as a Hughes Aircraft Company Fellow.
At TI Garr launched a minority leadership program that included guest speakers, a sponsorship scheme and professional development for people from minoritised backgrounds.
[6] Garr returned to TI to lead the engineering teams working on programmes in defence and communications.
[1][7][8] At Cisco Garr led teams that looked after customer satisfaction and corporate quality.