Randy Douthit was born on November 15 in Newberg Oregon state. He studied Arts at Stanford University. He then studied Psychology at Portland State University and also did his Masters there.
At the age of 23, he started his career as a director in Portland’s KGW of the children’s show ‘How Come’ which won him a Peabody award. He advanced in his career and became a producer at King Broadcasting producing Seattle Today which was a mix of news and entertainment and later on a producer at ABC. He became an executive producer and director of CNN’s Crossfire and Larry King Live. He was also an executive producer of: Warner Brothers, Quincy Jones Enterprises, Home Box Office, and New World Entertainment.
Randy Douthit produced a number of shows: Crossfire(1982-2014), Larry King Live(1985-2010), Hot Bench(2014-), Judge Joe Brown(1997-), Judge Judy (1996-2021), Judy Justice(2021-), Wavelength(1992-1993), The Jesse Jackson show (1990-), and Washington Dialogue(1984-).
He has received six Cable ACE awards, six Emmy awards, and two Peabody awards.
Judge Judy and Judy Justice have been more famous than any of his other shows with Judge Judy shaping the mold for arbitration reality TV being aired for 26 years and Judy Justice being aired on Amazon’s ad-supported IMDb TV whose initial episodes captured 25 million views.
Justice Judy and the last episodes of Judge Judy were aired during the pandemic. It
was an added cost in the production because of testing and safety procedures and there was also an increase in time. Some of the members were reluctant to be vaccinated or wear masks but later saw the seriousness of the virus and followed the rules. During that time there were no extras and the judge worked remotely, through video conferencing. A total of 120 episodes were produced in three months’ time which is a lot in a short period of time, every member had to roll up their sleeves for those tough days.