Ross Dowd
Ross J. Dowd  was a set decorator who worked on the second pilot episode of , . This episode was the last project he worked on before his death. Dowd died four months after Leonard Mudie, making him the second of two Star Trek staffers who died more than a full year before the series premiered on television.

Career outside Star Trek 
Dowd worked on numerous films and television shows from the early 1940s up until the mid-1960s. His earliest known work was as an art department assistant on 1941's  (with Orson Welles and Robert Wise). In the early 1960s, he served as set decorator on  (with casting director Joseph D'Agosta and starring Lucille Ball, Majel Barrett, Keith Andes, Joan Swift, Ralph Maurer, Arthur Tovey, Janos Prohaska, Sean Morgan, Michael F. Blake, and Eddie Paskey).

Dowd was nominated for Academy Awards on two occasions (both in the Best Art Direction category) for  (1956) and  (1960).

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Art department