He is currently an emeritus general authority and was the managing director of the church's Perpetual Education Fund from 2001 to 2012.

In 1981, Carmack was appointed to preside over the Idaho Boise Mission of the church.

Carmack was very active in publicizing about the Perpetual Education Fund and related efforts.

[3] Carmack has also written articles for BYU Studies and the Mormon Historical Sites foundation on the 19th-century era of the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

These former members of the Presiding Bishopric did not serve as a Seventy during their time as a general authority.