Representing District 2, Jack Lowe was elected to the Board of Trustees in July 2002. Lowe serves as board chair and managing director of TDIndustries, Ltd., a national mechanical and electrical construction and service company headquartered in Dallas.
Prior to his election to the Board of Trustees, Lowe provided executive coaching and leadership training for principals, arranged board governance training and presented the Jack Lowe Sr. Teacher Awards. Through TDIndustries, Lowe has been involved in the Adopt-A-School program, now known as Partners in Education, and has sponsored Reading is FUNdamental.
Lowe is a long-time advocate of public education and serves on the board of directors of the Texas Business and Education Coalition. He is also a past president of the Salesmanship Club of Dallas and board chair of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership.
Lowe was the 1996 recipient of the Crystal Achievement Award from the National Association of Women in Construction for contributions to the advancement of women and minorities in the industry. In 2000, he was presented with the National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Principle-Centered Leadership, and in the spring of 2002, he was honored with the J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award from the SMU Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility.
Shortly after Lowe's birth in East Orange, New Jersey, his family moved to the Dallas area. He graduated magna cum laude from Rice University with an engineering degree. He is a U.S. Navy veteran.
He and his wife, Mary, live in the Bachman neighborhood, and have six children and two grandchildren.
