Randolph Lowry III took office as the President of Lipscomb in 2005. A graduate of Pepperdine University, Lowry earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in public administration from the Malibu, Calif. university. He received the juris doctor degree from Hamline University, in St. Paul, Minn. In 1986, Lowry joined the law school faculty at Pepperdine and established a new international academic program in the emerging field of dispute resolution. Through his work at the Straus Institute, Lowry has served churches and individuals in resolving church-related disputes. In addition to teaching at Pepperdine, Lowry has worked, literally, around the world.

He is an annual visiting faculty member at Vermont Law School and City University of Hong Kong. He has also taught at Shantou University, in Beijing, China; Bond University in Gold Coast, Australia; Hamline University; and the University of Modena in Modena, Italy. His consulting and training practice has included work for the legal community in The Netherlands, the introduction of mediation in India through a grant from the Asian Development Bank, training for judges in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as consultation with lawyers for Freshfields, an international law firm in Asia.

Dr. Lowry is a regular public speaker and has given keynote presentations at Bible lectureships and conferences including those at Faulkner University, Abilene Christian University, Harding University, Pepperdine University, Oklahoma Christian University and Rochester College. He is the co-founder and first president of the Southern California Mediation Association, co-founder to the Ventura Center for Dispute Settlement, served as a gubernatorial appointment to the California Dispute Resolution Advisory Council, a member of the California Judicial Council’s Task Force on the Quality of Justice as well as the California Supreme Court Blue Ribbon Committee on Arbitration Ethics.

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