Randall Feldman is past Governor of Rotary District 6840 and past President of the Rotary Club of New Orleans.  He has been a member of the Rotary International Communications Committee and was Vice Chair of the Host Organization Committee of the 2011 International Convention in New Orleans.

At both the New Orleans and Seoul International Conventions he was a speaker at the general sessions and at the Atlanta Convention led a breakout session on effective service projects.  At the Presidential Peace Conference in Atlanta he was aide to United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina J. Mohammed, was R.I. President Ian Riseley’s Representative at the District 5160 Conference in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA and was President Barry Tassin’s Representative at the District 6330 Conference in Kincardine, Canada.

For Zones 30/31 he has led a full day seminar for executive staffs in clubs and districts and co-led a full day seminar for Emerging Rotary Leaders.  He also produced Zone webinars on membership and public relations, especially created for small clubs.  He also represented District 6840 on the Zones 30/31 Nominating Committee for the Rotary International Director.

For District 6840, he initiated the District’s first strategic planning process, co-chaired the Annual Fund, prepared the District’s first job descriptions for all positions and Club Leadership Objectives for all club incoming officers and committee chairs, created best practices papers on membership, public relations, fund-raising, and vocational service, developed the District’s Speakers Bureau, and has been Master of Ceremonies at many of the District Conferences Governors’ Banquets.  During his term as District Governor, he achieved records in Annual Giving and PolioPlus donations, as well as creating a 100-day service project which reached over 100,000 citizens.  He currently is Deputy Governor for Membership and has been a trainer for the Rotary Leadership Institute and the Ole Man River Presidents-elect Training Seminar.

As a member of the Rotary Club of New Orleans, he organized a regional conference on business ethics, brought first Internet service to St. Xavier’s English School/Orphanage in a remote part of west Sikkim Province, India, chaired the public relations, program, and international service committees, and led the installation of many of his club presidents as well as being president of the Club himself.  He is currently chairing a committee developing the Club’s response to emergencies in times of disaster.

In his professional life he spent 35 years in public broadcasting, culminating in 22-years as President & General Manager of WYES in New Orleans in 2012.  During this time, he was recipient of numerous PBS development awards and the first 21^st Century Award from the Association of Public Television Stations on whose board he also served.  He was co-founder of the (public television) Small Station Association and has numerous national production credits, including Executive Producer of several PBS specials.

He has served on the boards of a variety of organizations including Red Cross, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Statewide Bank and was selected as a Young Leadership Council Role Model.

Mr. Feldman is the proud stepfather of four incredible children and is now starting to lose count of all the grandchildren and great grandchildren.  He is married to Dr. Madelaine and lives with her without the stepchildren et al in New Orleans.