R. Lee Derr — Vice-Chairman, served 1998–2017

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Served 1998–2017 (per his July 26, 2017 farewell — the second-longest tenure after Gilliam), Vice-Chairman through the corpus era, until moving away from Grapevine. 58 corpus meetings, 6 dissents.

The Commission's materials hawk: author of the "anything viewed from the street must be metal clad" doctrine (2011 guidelines workshop), mover of stricter alternatives before settling for compromises (First Baptist "jewel box" glass entry, 2015 — his stricter motion failed 3-4 and he cast the lone nay on the final), dissenter on Maykus teardown massing (2015). His 2017 departure — with Ware's retirement (2018), Cox's (2021), Voelker's and Wilbanks' exits (2022), Gilliland's and Niewald's (2024), and Anderson's and Shope's (2025) — traces the full generational handoff from the founding cohort to today's Telford-led commission.

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