Randall Brandt
Randall J. Brandt is an attorney, mediator, and diplomat. He has served as a mediator in more than 1,000 civil cases across a wide range of subject matter and diverse parties including tax, probate, civil, small claims, conflicts between nonprofit organizations, and served as a mentor mediator with the Georgetown University Conflict Transformation Lab. He received the Outstanding Mediator Award from the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division, Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 2022.
He was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Global Criminal Justice in 2020 and 2021. The Office of Global Criminal Justice advises the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights on issues related to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. He helped formulate U.S. policy on the prevention of, responses to, and accountability for mass atrocities around the world and provided strategic advice and support to the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice. He was also engaged in interagency efforts on key global criminal justice and transitional justice issues including those related to the International Criminal Court.
In 2017 and 2018 Randall served as a representative, advocate, and spokesperson for college professor, Tony Kim’s family. Tony was one of 3 Americans detained in North Korea for more than a year. He worked closely with Tony’s family, advocating together for the release of all three Americans through private and public advocacy and a social media #USA3 and traditional media campaign. All three Americans were released on May 9, 2018.
He served as an Adjunct Instructor in Public Policy for the American Studies Program of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities in 2016. During the 2012 Republican primary campaign, Randall served as the Policy Director for Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign, where he provided strategic advice on policy and political matters as part of the senior leadership team, winning 11 states. In 2010 and 2011, he was the Program and Policy Director for the Program to Promote and Protect America’s Freedom at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He also served as a Senior Fellow for Convergence, now the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, a non-profit focused on consensus building efforts to find solutions to public policy challenges.
Randall also served as a Senior Advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom in the former Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. State Department from 2007 to 2009. He was a Senate leadership staffer serving as Deputy Staff Director and Counsel for the U.S. Senate Republican Conference in 2005 and 2006. From 1996 to 2005, he worked as a Counsel and Legislative Assistant in the congressional offices of Sen. Rick Santorum, Rep. Phil English and Rep. Mark Souder.
Randall has a J.D. and an M.A. in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University School of Law. He has an M.A. in Religion from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School has studied at the International Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg and at the University of Grenoble. He has a B.A. in Political Science from Wheaton College in IL
Randall is from Pennsylvania and is married to Gretchen Leaman Brandt, M.D. They have two sons, Caleb and Timothy, and reside in Washington, D.C.