Meet Randy Brown, who has made East Dallas his home for more than four decades. Randy has taken advantage of all the wonderful places and people that East Dallas offers its community since first moving to Texas in 1985.
Randy will be retiring as a Partner of Haynes Boone at the end of 2025. He has served the legal world with exceptional commitment, dedication, expertise and success in Intellectual Property law for more than 40 years. His legal career began as a clerk at a small boutique firm in Washington, D.C., while attending night law school at George Washington University.
Although his law practice demanded most of his time, he has managed to find ways to support his passions and his family’s passions through the years.
Through nine Christmas seasons, he performed as the butler with his children in the Dallas Ballet Center’s “Nutcracker” performances. Randy participated in musicals and plays with his children through the FUMC Dallas Rotunda Theater productions, and then he decided to join the church choir, where he continues to sing.
Currently Randy takes saxophone lessons from “Eugene”, the popular sax player with Captain and Camille, a Dallas-based smooth 70s tribute band. But in the true sense of a Renaissance man, Randy also enjoys opera! He has served on the Dallas Opera board for eight years; he most recently chaired the auditing committee.
Randy has cycled with Mirage throughout East Dallas and beyond for many years, and then he caught the hiking bug. Randy’s love of hiking at Texas state parks and Big Bend eventually took him to the steeper and longer trails of the Grand Canyon. He has participated in seven river trips on the Colorado River in both dory boats and rafts, as well as dozens of hiking/camping trips with family and friends in the Grand Canyon.
Most memorable was a rim-to-rim trip with his wife and daughter in 2018. This led to a passion for his support of indigenous tribes, trail maintenance and preservation of Desert View and other iconic structures at Grand Canyon.
He is currently in his sixth year of board service to the Grand Canyon Conservancy and currently serves as Board Chair. He is also a member of The White Rock Lake Conservancy and the Big Bend Conservancy.
Randy is a member of the Dallas Bourbon Club. He enjoys tasting and collecting bourbon while also giving philanthropically through the group’s many fundraising events. DBC raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for local and national charities such as Community Partners of Dallas and North Texas Food Bank. Most recently, DBC raised $99,000 for Hill Country flood relief in July 2025.
The Lakewood Growler is Randy’s feel-good spot in the neighborhood where he enjoys finding unique craft beer, attending crawfish boils and meeting and visiting with neighbors … it’s a warm and friendly place “where everybody knows your name.”
We don’t know how Randy managed to squeeze “time” out of the turnip, but we are certainly glad he did. Our lives are more full, vibrant and joy-filled having had this Renaissance Man at the helm of our family ship.
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