Randall J. Brandt is joining the Ethics and Public Policy Center after serving for 13 years in the federal government until 2009. He is a mediator, attorney, and consultant. He is a Senior Fellow for Convergence, a non-profit focused on consensus building efforts to find solutions to public policy challenges. He served as a Senior Advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom in the 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 1999 to 2005, he served as Counsel for Sen. Rick Santorum, and earlier worked in the U.S. House of Representatives for Rep. Phil English and Rep. Mark Souder from 1996 to 1999 as a Legislative Assistant and Counsel. Mr. Brandt has a J.D. from the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, CA, an M.A. in Religion from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL, and a B.A. in Political Science from Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. He is currently an M.A. Candidate in Dispute Resolution at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law. He is married to Gretchen Leaman Brandt, M.D., and has two children, Caleb and Timothy.
