Randy Brown, Vice-Chairman

Randy Brown was appointed to the Citizens’ Utility Ratepayer Board by Governor Kathleen Sebelius in October 2005.

Mr. Brown is Senior Fellow in the Elliott School of Communication. He also serves as the executive director of the Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government. He has 37 years of professional journalism experience, almost 21 of them at The Wichita Eagle. He was editorial page editor for five years; before that, executive sports editor. He spent most of the 1980s at KAKE-TV, first as senior reporter, then as managing editor and Live at Five anchor.

Mr. Brown is currently an active member of a number of boards, including the Wichita Library Board, the WSU-Link Advisory Board, the Episcopal Social Services Board and the Kansas Bar Association’s Media-Bar Committee.

He is married to a Wichita lawyer, Linda Parks. He has two sons (Chris and Chad) and a daughter (Keisha).

Mr. Brown is serving a four-year term that expires June 30, 2009.