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Jerry R. Junkins
Mr. Junkins was chairman, president and chief executive officer
of Texas Instruments Incorporated, one of the world’s leading
electronic companies.
Mr. Junkins joined the company in 1959, the same year he earned
a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University.
He spent most of his operational career in the company’s
defense business, beginning as a manufacturing engineer and eventually
becoming manager of the entire business. By the early 1980s, Mr.
Junkins had assumed broader management responsibilities, with
several additional TI businesses reporting to him. These included
TI’s data systems, industrial systems, consumer products,
and the company’s worldwide information systems network.
Mr. Junkins became president and chief executive officer of TI
in 1985, and chairman in 1988. Under his leadership, Texas Instruments
executed a series of strategic transitions to reposition each
of its major businesses to better compete in the 1990s.
In addition to his duties, Mr. Junkins participated in a range
of activities in business, government, civic affairs, and education.
At the time of his death, he was a member of the board of directors
of Caterpillar Inc., The Proctor & Gamble Company and 3M.
He was also a member of the board of directors of the U. S.-Japan
Business Council and the Dallas Citizens Council, and a member
of the board of trustees of Southern Methodist University. He
was a presidential appointee to The Advisory Committee on Trade
Policy and Negotiations. Mr. Junkins was also a member of the
Business Council and was chairman of The Business Roundtable’s
International Trade and Investment Task Force. He served as chairman
of the Alliance for GATT NOW, a business coalition formed in 1994
to secure Congressional passage of the GATT Uruguay Round Agreement.
In addition to his bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University,
Mr. Junkins earned a master’s in engineering administration
from Southern Methodist University in 1968. He also received an
honorary doctorate of engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in 1988 and was a member of the National Academy of
Engineering.
Mr. Junkins is survived by his wife, Sally, two daughters, a son-in-law,
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