Randy H. Katz is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at UC Berkeley who was the first computer scientist to chair the EECS Department, and who, prior to his retirement, served from 2018 to 2021 as Vice Chancellor for Research. Katz was born in August 1955, in Brooklyn, New York, and earned his B.A. in 1976 from Cornell University, where he was a Cornell College Scholar majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. Katz earned an M.S. in 1978, and a Ph.D. in 1980, at UC Berkeley with a thesis on database design and translation. After a postdoctoral year in industry and two years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Katz joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1983, where he became full professor in 1988, and in 1996 was appointed the United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professor in EECS. In the late 1980s, Katz co-developed with UC Berkeley colleagues the redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) concept for computer storage, a multi-billion dollar per year industry sector. While on secondment to the US government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1993-1994, Katz led the effort to connect the White House to the internet. At UC Berkeley, Katz has supervised over fifty Ph.D. dissertations and nearly sixty M.S. theses. He has received numerous academic recognitions, including the Berkeley Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, and has published over 350 refereed technical papers, book chapters, and books, including the widely used textbook, Contemporary Logic Design. His research interests have included database management, VLSI CAD, high performance multiprocessor and storage architectures, transport and mobility protocols for wireless networks, converged data and telephony network and service architectures, and the architecture and energy efficient design of large-scale internet datacenters. From 1996 to 1999, he became the first computer scientist to chair UC Berkeley's EECS Department, and in 2015, he served as chair of the Department's Computer Science Division. In 2018, Katz became UC Berkeley's Vice Chancellor for Research, where he dealt with shutting down and restarting campus amid unprecedented emergencies including the COVID-19 pandemic. Katz retired from university service in late 2021. In this oral history, Katz discusses all the above, with details on his academic research projects, his collaborations with colleagues, his teaching and mentorship, and his administrative public service both for the US government and at UC Berkeley, all while highlighting the dramatic growth and evolution of computer science and technology as an essential component of modern life.