He was the President of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee from 2005 to 2021.
[4] Lowry was born in Oregon and grew up in Long Beach, California.
[1] From 1986 onwards, he taught law at Pepperdine University, where he established the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.
[5][1] In September 2017, he apologized after hosting a dinner at his home for African-American students where the menu was "mac n cheese, collard greens, corn bread"[7] and the centerpieces "contained stalks of cotton,"[3][8] a symbol of slavery in the United States.
Lowry and his wife, Rhonda,[2] live in Nashville.