James Robert "Jim Bob" Duggar (born July 18, 1965) of Tontitown, Arkansas, is a former state legislator who serve in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. He is a real estate agent, and owns several commercial properties in his local area. He is perhaps best known as the father of the Duggar family, which currently includes seventeen children, with an eighteenth expected in January 2009.