Jack Lowe Jr.

Jack Lowe Jr. was born May 20, 1939 in Bloomfield, New Jersey, the son of Jack Lowe Sr. and his wife Harriet. Lowe Jr. grew up in Dallas and attended Highland Park High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Rice University in Electrical Engineering and served two years in the U.S. Navy before joining TDIndustries in 1964. TDIndustries has been recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the Best Places to Work repeatedly because of the company's use of the servant-leadership model. Lowe Jr. furthered his father's legacy at TDIndustries and in the broader business community as a whole.

By 1965, Lowe was low man in the Wholesale Division, and someone had pointed him in the direction of the fledgling apartment industry. He was selling cable heating for residences and a new unitary heating and cooling system for the new large apartment complexes. By the time TD brought GE’s new and better equipment into the Dallas market, unitary systems were considered a bad risk. The Lincoln Properties’ Willow Creek complex went with TD’s system, opening the apartment market to GE units.

Lincoln Properties ran a subsidiary called RCLP—Rockefeller, Crow, Lyle and Pogue—that did all of its mechanical work. Trammell wanted TD to take over all of the air conditioning, plumbing, and electrical in their apartment business. TD agreed to the air conditioning and later plumbing. The plumbers, heat and air crews formed a separate company in 1967 that would function as a franchised Texas Distributors dealer and was named Tempo Air Conditioning, Inc. Trouble arose almost immediately, and it reflected on Lowe, who was the Wholesale Division’s liaison with Tempo—the man in charge of Tempo had been diverting men and materials to his own projects, and Lowe didn’t catch him at it. It was a big trauma to him and a growing experience.

By 1971, Lowe was General Manager of Texas Distributors, and in 1976, he became General Manager for TDMechanical. In 1978, Tempo was taken in as a full-fledged division of Texas Distributors. It grew and soon joined TDMechanical as TDIndustries’ largest earners. Lowe was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer in 1979, and after the passing of his father in 1980, he became CEO. Lowe Jr. served as CEO from 1980 to 2005, and continues to serve as chairman of the board for TDIndustries. He was succeeded by Harold MacDowell.

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