Rotary Club of Decatur, Alabama, USA
President, Rotary International, 2019-2020
Director, Rotary International, 1999-2001
Chair, The Rotary Foundation, 2024-2025
Vice Chair, The Rotary Foundation, 2006-2007, 2007-2008
Trustee, The Rotary Foundation, 2004-2008, 2021-2025
Mark Daniel Maloney is a member of the law firm of Blackburn, Maloney and Schuppert, LLC, focusing 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.
Mark served as Rotary International president during 2019-2020, when he successfully advocated for the addition of the environment as a seventh area of focus. He also emphasized strategies to grow Rotary, presided over the first virtual RI Convention that was organized during the COVID-19 pandemic, and increased awareness of Rotary’s longstanding relationship with the United Nations. Mark also served as Chair of the Trustees of The Rotary Foundation in 2024-2025, during which time the Foundation exceeded its decade-long goal by growing the Foundation’s Endowment Fund to US$2.050 billion dollars in net assets and commitments.
A Rotarian since 1980, he has also served as an RI director; Foundation trustee and vice chair; and aide to 2003-2004 RI President Jonathan Majiyagbe from Nigeria. He also 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, Mark led a Group Study Exchange to Nigeria.
Mark 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 and vice chair of the International PolioPlus Committee; and adviser to the Foundation’s Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Schools Target Challenge Committee.
Mark’s wife, Gay, is an attorney in the same law firm and a charter member and past president of the Rotary Club of Decatur Daybreak, Alabama, USA. Both support The Rotary Foundation as Paul Harris Fellows, Bequest Society members, and Arch Klumph Society members.
Gay and Mark have two daughters, one honorary daughter, and two grandsons.
September 21, 2025
