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1954 –
The tie, exactly: Daniel Lee Gard, born January 29, 1954 — his birthplace is not stated in the sources read, and he is not a born-or-raised Mishawaka figure. He is in this section for one documented reason, stated at its true strength: before his seminary career he served as a Lutheran pastor in Mishawaka, per the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod's sources and his standard biography. A pastorate is a real tie and a limited one; this entry claims exactly it.
The course: Gard was educated at Carthage College, at Concordia Theological Seminary, and at the University of Notre Dame. He joined the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary at Fort Wayne as professor of exegetical theology in 1989 and served there until 2014, returning in 2019. Commissioned a Navy Reserve chaplain in 1988, he served in the Pentagon recovery operations after the September 11, 2001 attacks, deployed to Iraq, and served as chaplain to Joint Task Force Guantanamo. Nominated by President Obama, he served as the eighteenth deputy chief of chaplains for reserve matters, from October 2013 to October 2016, at the rank of rear admiral, and retired from the Navy in 2016. He was the eleventh president of Concordia University Chicago from 2014 to 2019. On August 1, 2023, the synod's Ministry to the Armed Forces awarded him the Silver St. Martin of Tours Medal — an award made only twenty-two times in eighty years. The Mishawaka pastorate stands early in that course and is otherwise undocumented in the sources read; the gap is named in this build's people note.
Sources:
- Wikipedia, "Daniel L. Gard," read November 2026 (pastorate in Mishawaka; seminary, chaplaincy and university course)
- Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, Ministry to the Armed Forces (Silver St. Martin of Tours Medal, August 1, 2023)