Justice Roger A. Page was sworn in as the newest member of the Tennessee Supreme Court in February 2016 after he was appointed by Governor Bill Haslam and unanimously confirmed by the Tennessee General Assembly. In August 2016, he was elected to serve until 2022, the remainder of the full term. He is the first appellate judge to be selected pursuant to the Constitutional amendment approved by the voters of Tennessee in 2014. Prior to assuming a seat on the Supreme Court, he served as an appellate judge on the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals from December 2011 to February 2016. While on the Court of Criminal Appeals he wrote more than 330 appellate opinions. Justice Page began his judicial career after being elected Circuit Court Judge in 1998. He presided over both civil and criminal trials in the 26th Judicial District, which includes Chester, Henderson, and Madison counties, from August 1998 to December 2011.
Justice Page received his law degree with high honors in 1984 from the University of Memphis School of Law where he ranked 4th in his class.
Before his experience on the bench, he was a law clerk for then-U.S. District Court Judge Julia Smith Gibbons from 1984-1985. He was an associate at Peterson, Young, Self & Asselin in Atlanta from 1985-1987. He practiced at Holmes, Rich, Sigler & Page in Jackson from 1987-1991. He was an assistant attorney general for the State of Tennessee in Jackson from 1991-1998.
Before his legal career, Justice Page was a chief pharmacist and assistant store manager for Walgreens in Memphis, where he worked from 1977-1984. He received a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy in 1978 from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy in Memphis. He attended the University of Tennessee at Martin from 1973-1975 after graduating from Chester County High School in Henderson.
Justice Page is President of the Howell Edmunds Jackson American Inn of Court and has been honored as a Tennessee Bar Foundation Fellow. He has also chaired the joint Tennessee Bar Association/Tennessee Judicial Conference (TJC) Bench-Bar Committee. Justice Page has served on the TJC Executive Committee, the TJC Compensation and Retirement Committee and co-chaired the TJC Legislative Committee. As a trial judge, Justice Page served on the Tennessee Performance Evaluation Commission that evaluated all Tennessee appellate judges.
Justice Page’s family has lived in West Tennessee for at least seven generations. He is married to Chancellor Carol McCoy and has two sons and three grandchildren. He is a member of First Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee.
