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 was recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the Best Places to Work repeatedly because of the company's use of the servant-leadership model.

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.

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.

In 2005 Jack received the J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award from the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at Southern Methodist University, and in 2007, was named a Distinguished Alumnus of his high school, Highland Park, in Dallas, Texas.