Meeting/Event Information

The International Port of Memphis Multimodal Expansion Project

James R. (Randy) Richardson, Vice President, Port and Industrial Properties for EDGE , Executive Director, Memphis/Shelby County Port Commission

Randy Richardson was employed by the Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission as Administrative Manager in June 1990 and promoted to Deputy Director in 1993 before being promoted to Executive Director in November of 2010.
Richardson is a member and past Chairman of the Board of Inland Rivers Ports and Terminals, is on the Board of Directors and is the Basin Chairman for the Lower Mississippi River and is on the Board of Directors of the National Waterways Conference.

Richardson is also a member of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C. and the Marine Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council. Richardson is the Chairman of of the Area Maritime Security Committee – Memphis. Richardson is a member of the Society of American Military Engineers, Member of the Presidents Island Industrial Association and on the Board of Directors of Memphis Plywood Company.

Richardson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi but raised in Memphis, Tennessee. Richardson graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1987 with a BA in Geography and with a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of Memphis in 1989

 Total Years of Employment at Port Commission - 23 years

Affiliations

-USDOT MARINE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
-UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD – Waterways Committee
-UNITED STATES COAST GUARD - AREA MARITIME SECURITY COMMITTEE - Chairman
-NATIONAL WATERWAYS CONFERENCE – Board of Directors and Executive Committee
-INLAND RIVER PORTS AND TERMINALS – Past President and current Chairman of the Board of Directors
-MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FLOOD CONTROL ASSOCIATION – TN Vice President
-MEMPHIS PLYWOOD COMPANY – Board of Directors
-MEMPHIS AREA METROPOLITIAN POLICY BOARD – Voting Member
-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PORT AUTHORITIES - Member
-AAPA – Participant in Professional Port Management program
-WESTERN DREDGING ASSOCIATION - Member
-THE PROPELLER CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES, MEMPHIS CHAPTER – Past President and past Chairman of the Board of Governors
-SOCIETY OF AMERCAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - Member
-PRESIDENTS ISLAND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION – Member
-PRESIDENTS ISLAND EMERGENCY EVACUATION COMMITTEE - Member
-ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION – Member