Background
ROWLEY, JOHN was born on May 18, 1955 in Stuttgart, West Germany (United States. Army Base).
ROWLEY, JOHN was born on May 18, 1955 in Stuttgart, West Germany (United States. Army Base).
Texas Tech University (Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, 1975, Omicron Delta Kappa. Juris Doctor, 1980). Member, Order of Barristers. Finalist, State Moot Court Competition, 1979.
Member, Jessup International Moot Court Team. Speaker, "The Tort Revolution and Your Practice," Seminar, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Texas.
Marie, Ontario from 2000 to 2010. He was first elected in the 2000 municipal election, defeating Steve Butland, and in 2006 he was re-elected for his third term with approximately 56.5% of the vote. He was a consulting engineer who operated his own company, Rowswell & Associates Engineers Ltd.
He was one of the longest-serving mayors in the city's history. Only Joe Fratesi served as mayor of Sault Ste. Marie for longer than Rowswell.
One of his final significant acts as mayor was to issue a formal apology to French Canadians for the Sault Ste. Marie language resolution of 1990, which had occurred before his time on council. He died in office on August 31, 2010 after a prolonged battle with cancer.
Rowswell had a private funeral, although a public wake was held at the city's Essar Centre. The city's 2010 Terry Fox Run was also dedicated to Rowswell's memory. As his death occurred less than two months before the 2010 municipal election, provincial law did not permit a by-election to be held to choose his immediate successor.
City council opted not to appoint an interim replacement, but instead followed its existing rotation of acting mayors that had been arranged to serve as mayor during his medical absences.
El Paso and American Bar Associations. State Bar of Texas; State Bar of New Mexico. (Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization).