Hunt Garner is from the Long Beach, California area where he grew up and attended high school. He also attended college at Long Beach City College and later at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities, with emphases in History and Spanish in 1985. He then attended and graduated from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 1988.

Following law school, Hunt worked as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable George E. Ballif of the Fourth District Court of Utah. After his clerkship, Hunt returned to California for a time where he took a job as a deputy public defender for the County of Riverside, California and later worked as an associate for the litigation firm of Smith and Miller in Santa Ana, California.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 1998, after filling assignments in Utah, Japan, and California, Hunt left active duty in the Air Force and moved his family to the Ogden, Utah area, where he now maintains a private practice entirely devoted to personal estate planning. He still maintains a commission in the U.S. Air Force Reserve where he holds the rank of major.

Hunt is married to the former Jolaine Porter of Glendale, California. They have three children: Nila (16), Russell (13), and Joseph (6). He is licensed to practice law in California and Utah.

In 1990, Hunt was offered and accepted a commission as a lieutenant in the Air Force Judge Advocate General's Department. His first assignment was back in Utah at Hill Air Force Base. Although he worked a variety of assignments in the Air Force--including a great deal of criminal law--it was here that he began to develop a passion for estate planning.

One of Hunt's first duties in the Air Force was to assist servicemen and women in setting their legal affairs in order before shipping overseas to participate in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He realized that the simple wills that the military was willing to provide for these people were woefully inadequate for many of them. As his other assignments permitted, Hunt dedicated himself to becoming expert in all areas of personal estate planning. After several years, he was asked to prepare training materials and courses to instruct other attorneys and paralegals in these areas. Some of Hunt's materials are still in use by the military to this day.