Burl Gilliam — Chairman ~1991–2016

The founding-era Chairman: ~25 years of service (the 2013 minutes note his "22nd year"), presiding until April 2016, when he announced he could not continue after a Progressive Supranuclear Palsy diagnosis — the transition that made Sean Shope Chairman that August. Corpus observes 48 meetings (2011–2016), 2 dissents.

His era defined the Commission's DNA that persists today: approve-with-conditions as the default; landmark-designation-as-price-of-demolition (Cameron Lumber, 2012); materials pragmatism inside period discipline (the 2011 guidelines workshop consensus on metal-clad wood windows and cementitious siding); and hard lines on signs and paint ("did not look period appropriate" was his signature verdict — see the 520 S Main sign denial, 2013, in your College Street Case Ledger).

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