Overview
Roger A. Page (born October 7, 1955) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court since 2016. He was appointed to the court by Governor Bill Haslam.
Education
Page received his Juris Doctor in 1984 from the University of Memphis School of Law, where he ranked 4th in his class. He received a bachelor's degree in 1978 from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy in Memphis. He attended the University of Tennessee at Martin from 1973 to 1975 after graduating from Chester County High School in Henderson, Tennessee.
Career
Page is a former licensed pharmacist. He filled his last prescription the day before he took the Tennessee Bar examination in 1984, and kept his pharmacist's license active until 1998 when he was elected circuit court judge. After obtaining his law license, Page was a law clerk from 1984 to 1985 for Judge Julia Smith Gibbons of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. In 1985 he was hired in the private sector as an associate attorney with Peterson, Young, Self and Asselin. In 1987, he was hired as an associate and partner with Holmes, Rich, Sigler and Page, a Jackson, Tennessee law firm. While in the private sector, his practice was general in nature, including personal injury, criminal, and workers' compensation cases. In 1991, he was hired by the State of Tennessee Attorney General's Office where he served seven years as an Assistant Attorney General where he handled mostly civil matters.
Judicial service
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