John “Jack” Caldwell founded Autobody by Caldwell in Laguna Hills, Calif., in the 1970s and owned it for about 30 years. He led the Orange County chapter of the California Autobody Association and was statewide CAA president in 1984. A co-founder of the Collision Industry Conference, he served as its second chairman, in 1986. He spent many years on the Automotive Service Association’s operations committee, rising to chairman of its Collision Division, and chaired NACE in 1988 and 1989. He also served on advisory panels for ASE, I-CAR, Motor, Mitchell and ADP. Before entering collision repair, he was a U.S. Air Force B-25 pilot. He died Feb. 2, 2019, at 85.
Jack Caldwell
Class of 1991