Mark Maloney, Past Rotary International President, Vice Chair Rotary Foundation, Speaking at St. Louis Rotary Lunch on Thursday, November 2, 2023
Wear your Rotary Foundation Paul Harris pins and medallions this Thursday, November 2, 2022
Mark Daniel Maloney is a principal in the law firm of Blackburn, Maloney and Schuppert, LLC, with a
focus on taxation, estate planning, and agricultural law. He represents large farming operations in the
Southeastern and Midwestern United States and has chaired the American Bar Association’s Committee
on Agriculture in the Section of Taxation. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Alabama
State Bar Association, the Alabama Law Institute, and is a past president of the Morgan County Bar
Association.
He has been active in Decatur’s religious community, chairing his church’s finance council and a local
Catholic school board. He has also served as president of the Community Foundation of Greater
Decatur, chair of Morgan County Meals on Wheels, and director of the United Way of Morgan County
and the Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce.
Maloney served as RI president during 2019-2020, when he presided over the first virtual RI Convention
that was organized during the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasized strategies to grow Rotary. A
Rotarian since 1980, he has also served as an RI director; Foundation trustee and vice chair; and aide to
2003-04 RI President Jonathan Majiyagbe. He also has participated in the Council on Legislation as chair,
vice chair, parliamentarian, and trainer. He was an adviser to the 2004 Osaka Convention Committee,
chaired the 2014 Sydney Convention Committee, and chaired RI’s Operations Review Committee for
four terms. Prior to serving as a district governor, Maloney led a Group Study Exchange to Nigeria.
He also served as Future Vision Committee vice chair; Foundation training institute moderator;
Foundation permanent fund national adviser; member and vice chair of the Peace Centers Committee;
member of the International PolioPlus Committee; and adviser to the Foundation’s Water, Sanitation,
and Hygiene in Schools Target Challenge Committee.
Maloney’s wife, Gay, is an attorney in the same law firm and a member and past president of the Rotary
Club of Decatur Daybreak, Alabama, USA. Both support The Rotary Foundation as Paul Harris Fellows,
Major Donors, and Bequest Society members.