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Lecturer is used at the University of California for instructors with a PhD and no research responsibilities. Some of them even have a form of tenure, "security of employment."

A prominent example in computer science was Brian Harvey

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/

who designed and then taught the introductory computer science course (CS 61A) for many years and is now retired.

I believe lecturer is used even if they don't have PhDs. At least this was the case at UCSD where we had several.

Lecturers are part- or full-time teaching faculty (usually not tenure-track, but some schools like UC's have tenure-track Lecturer tracks) e.g., https://profiles.stanford.edu/48960

Interesting, it was not a title used in the schools I attended (Virginia Tech, William and Mary) or have I seen it used elsewhere. I just checked Harvard, and they use it, too, so it's not just a west coast thing.

https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=69c67db832c84ca4&from=se...