Dr. Lowder grew up in Lovington, IL and earned his bachelor’s degree from the Eastern Illinois University in 1964 and his master’s degree from Chicago’s DePaul University in 1968. After working in the Evanston, IL public schools, he moved to Iowa City in 1968. He worked as a speech and hearing consultant for the University of Iowa until 1981 when he founded Iowa Audiology and Hearing Aid Centers in Coralville, IA.
He earned his Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.) degree from the University of Florida. Dr. Lowder has served two terms as the president of the Iowa Association of Hearing Health Professionals. He also served on the Board of the Audiology Foundation of America and was the chair of the foundation from 2001-2006. He was appointed by former governor Terry Branstad to Iowa’s Speech Pathology and Audiology Board of Examiners in 1998 and served as the chair of the board for four years.
He is married to the former Mary Wilmeth of Iowa City and has one son, Jarryd, a computer artist who lives in New York City. Dr. Lowder is now retired but very much enjoys stopping into the office, hoping to see and visit with his former patients. Dr. Lowder devoted over 50 years to helping patients with communicative problems, primarily those with hearing loss.