Early (tenure and) promotion?

A reader writes in:

I'm writing to ask if you could ... post the following question:  I'm looking for examples of philosophers who were promoted from Assistant to Associate within 5 years of receiving their PhD (not within 5 years of starting their job). In particular, I'm looking for examples of people who may have held postdocs or VAPs or other temporary roles before landing a TT, but still got promoted within 5 years of graduating. I imagine such cases might be rare, but I also suspect they exist. 

Crowdsourcing examples of this on the Cocoon would be very helpful to me. Long story short, I am in the atypical situation where my admin is basically looking for an excuse to promote me as quickly as possible. But it needs to be justified to outside accreditors in Europe, so concrete examples would help establish precedent. 

Indeed, it might be good to hear about cases of this, including the circumstances where it happens. Any readers have experience with this, either in their own case or with someone they know (e.g. in their department)?

Comments

[Mark D. White]

At my school, we will promote tenure-track faculty to associate professor before tenure if they came in with several years experience elsewhere and, based on that, they achieve a level of scholarly output commensurate with promotion to associate. (Two current members of the philosophy department received pre-tenure promotion this way.)

[a random person]

I don't know how common it is, but Karen Crowther seems to be an example. She did four years of postdoc after Phd and was hired as an associate professor after that.

[early tenure]

Ray Briggs (Stanford) may be the kind of case you're looking for.

[TT]

Matt Duncan (Rhode Island) is another example, whose work is really excellent.

[R]

Richard Pettigrew http://richardpettigrew.com/cv/ and Jan Sprenger http://www.laeuferpaar.de/ both earned their PhDs in 2008 and were full professors by 2014. Pettigrew in particular was a postdoc at Bristol 2008-2011, was hired permanently in 2011, then immediately promoted to Reader (~ Associate Professor) in 2012, and promoted again in 2014.

[Oxford]

Permanent posts in Oxford are these days called Associate Professorships (or Professorships) and several people have got these jobs less than 5 years post-PhD (e.g. Rachel Fraser, Alex Kaiserman, James Read, Sinon Shogry, Alex Prescott-Couch etc.). Different system, though, with no Assistant Professor rank.

[Early tenure]

Peter Van Elswyk at UWM. He will be moving to Northwestern now, but he received tenure in 3 years I believe

[Jordan]

Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame) may be another relevant case. PhD in 2011, Associate Prof with tenure in 2015. (And full in 2017!) No temporary gigs after the PhD, though.

[Pete Mandik]

I got my Ph.D. in 2000; associate professor in 2005.

[LSE]

Johanna Thoma at LSE. Started in 2016 as Assistant Professor, PhD in 2017, Associate Professor in 2020. Well deserved as well.