Dawn A. Randolph, MPA
CEO, Georgia Pharmacy Association
Dawn A. Randolph, MPA, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Georgia Pharmacy Association. She began her tenure as CEO February 1, 2024. Randolph has a long career in public administration and policy in the fields of healthcare, disability, mental health, and substance use disorders. In her current role, Randolph leads GPhA into a new era addressing emerging healthcare challenges facing the field of pharmacy to impact the future for members.
Randolph has a breadth and depth of experience in non-profit administration, finances, management and policy. Her career spans federal and state government, charitable non-profits, membership associations, universities, and consulting.
Previously Randolph was the CFO of the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network where she provided contract management and financial skills after the untimely loss of their former CEO. Randolph stepped in to stabilize the financial standing of the organization in 2022 and took it through a complete overhaul in financial practices.
Prior to her role as a CFO and during the pandemic, she was the subject-matter expert and principal researcher to convert in-person curricula to online self-led courses for the Columbo Plan Global Centre for Credentialing and Certification through a multi-year multi-million-dollar grant from the US Department of State. She supported the project from RFP development to launch. Randolph built and edited curricula for 12 courses, developed pre- and post-testing, defined project evaluation tools, edited content, created glossaries in 15 different languages and assisted the project manager in executing deliverables.
Randolph got her start in public policy and administration as a congressional aide to US Senator Sam Nunn. It was with the senator that she developed her deep love of Georgia and the commitment to ensure all Georgians have access to quality healthcare. During her time as a congressional aide, she managed cases for veterans and military service members then moved into policy facilitation for large regulatory projects such as the East-West Connector and the Sydney Lanier Bridge construction.
Randolph also built a consulting practice specializing in public policy, project management and strategic development for government and nonprofit clients. In this capacity, she has worked with more than 41 clients over the past 20 years. She has assisted her clients in more than $360 million in state appropriations while also managing projects underwritten by $18 million in grant and donor funds. Prior to her consulting work she was the chief operating officer of the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse (now the Georgia Council 4 Recovery), where she helped develop the structure for a new business model to support modern advocacy and administer the merger of two existing organizations into a new 501(c)3 non-profit.
Randolph recently was an adjunct professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, designing and leading courses for undergraduate and graduate students around leadership, organizational behavior, digital citizenship, project evaluation, and management. She led a health administration project evaluation course at Coastal Carolina and a Public Policy Residency at Kennesaw State University.
Randolph holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Georgia State University (summa cum laude) with a concentration in management, budget, and finance, and a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Service and International Politics from The Pennsylvania State University. She is a member of the Georgia Society of Association Executives, serves as a trustee of the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority Foundation, and is the chair of the Henry County Zoning Advisory Board. She lives in Stockbridge, Georgia with her husband Chris and their three cats: Bentley, Ferrari, and Lamborghini.
