Russell Randle
Russ Randle is an attorney, a partner in the Washington, DC
office of Patton Boggs LLP, a large law firm. His practice includes export
controls and foreign sanctions work, including questions arising under the
Sudan Sanctions Regulations, as well as litigation and environmental work.
Russ has been at Patton Boggs since 1981; prior to that time he worked as
law clerk to Judge John H. Pratt of the U.S. District Court for the District
of Columbia. He is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was a member
of the Yale Law Journal. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton
University, and a graduate of the EFM program from the University of the
South. He has also taken courses at the Yale Divinity School (1980) and
Virginia Theological Seminary (1995).
Russ has worked with the Diocese of Renk in Sudan since 1997, having gone to
Sudan three times in support of that work, most recently in May 2006, and to
Kenya and Uganda in 2002 to the Kakuma Refugee Camp, and to meet with the
Wycliffe team working on the Dinka Old Testament. Russ has worked at the
national level of the Episcopal Church as a deputy to General Convention
from Virginia (2003, 2006), and in lobbying on Sudan issues in coordination
with the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations. Russ also has
done substantial work at the dioesan level, having served as a member of
Diocesan Council nearly continuously since 1984, and as President and
Secretary of the Diocesan Standing Committee, in a term concluding in 2002.
He has been a member of Christ Church, Alexandria since 1980, and has served
in many positions there. At the national, diocesan, and parish levels, Russ
has been active in working to help the Episcopal Church of the Sudan.