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Randy Green, MPA

Professor of Criminal Justice and Political Science
706-346-0005 (cell)
ragreen@highlands.edu
Floyd Campus/F-147

Biography:

Randy is a tenured Professor of Criminal Justice and Political Science at Georgia Highlands College. He is a former Regional Director with the State of Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles. Randy completed a thirty-two-year law enforcement career in July 2011, after serving with the Rome, Georgia, Police Department for four years and then with the Board of Pardons and Paroles for twenty-eight years. He is a POST-certified Senior Instructor and holds Instructor Specialization Certification in Firearms and Defensive Tactics. He is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Defensive Tactics Instructor course. One of Randy’s proudest moments in his criminal justice career is when he was selected for the inaugural Parole Board’s Instructor of the Year in 1996. He was selected as the instructor of the year from a pool of outstanding and distinguished instructors who taught for the Parole Board at that time. Additionally, a moment of equal pride and a profound honor for Randy was being named a recipient of the USG’s eMajor eHero Award in November 2023. He is just one of many awesome professors who teach for the USG’s eMajor, and he enjoys every minute of teaching the wonderful students who take criminal justice classes in the eMajor Program.

Randy holds a Master's in Public Administration with concentrations in Criminal Justice and Political Science from Jacksonville State University. He has taught at the college level since 1988, having taught at Georgia Highlands College, Berry College, Shorter University, and Georgia Northwestern Technical College, and has been on faculty at Georgia Highlands College since 1990. He served on the Northwest Georgia Police Academy Advisory Board for many years, having served two terms as Chairman. He is a current member of the Community Criminal Justice Foundation, Inc., International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association, and the American Criminal Justice Association – Lambda Alpha Epsilon. He is a past member of the Parole Association of Georgia and the National Sheriffs’ Association.

Randy serves as a Co-Advisor to the Criminal Justice and Political Science Club at GHC and enjoys the fun times with the club members at club meetings and events. He feels strongly that student engagement is very important in the lives of students, and the networking that occurs in club activities is critical for future careers in criminal justice. On January 20, 2017, Randy was awarded the Quality Matters Expert Award, as he had successfully completed a series of training sessions in Quality Matters.

Randy and his wife, Sherry (Ret. Associate Professor of Education at GHC), live in Rome, GA. They have one daughter, Kasey Green Brant, and one grandson, Brody William Brant. They enjoy watching their grandson play baseball, watching GHC athletic events, and spending time in the Grand Tetons. Randy and his family attend Crosspoint City Church in Cartersville, Georgia.