Roger A. Page
Roger A. Page was a judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court Western Section. He assumed office on February 22, 2016. He left office on August 31, 2024.
Page ran for re-election for judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court Western Section. He won in the retention election on August 4, 2022.
Page was elected as chief justice by his peers on August 24, 2021, effective September 1, 2021.[1]
Page was appointed to the court in January 2016 by Governor Bill Haslam (R). On February 22, 2016, Page became the first supreme court justice to be confirmed by the Tennessee state legislature and was sworn in that day.[2] He succeeded Justice Gary Wade, who retired in September 2015.[3][4][5] To read more about judicial selection in Tennessee, click here.
Page retired from the court in August 2024.[6]
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[7] Page received a confidence score of Mild Republican.[8] Click here to read more about this study.
Biography
Page received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy in 1978 and his J.D. from the University of Memphis in 1984.[9] He clerked for Judge Julia Smith Gibbons of the Western District of Tennessee from 1984 to 1985. Page was an attorney in private practice from 1985 until he became assistant attorney general of Tennessee in 1992. Page served as assistant attorney general until 1998 when he became a judge on the Twenty-Sixth Circuit Court where he served until 2011.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag[9] Page was retained by voters in 2014 for a term that would have expired in 2022.[10] In 2016 he joined the Tennessee Supreme Court.[9][11] Page held memberships in the Edmund Howell Jackson American Inn of Court, Tennessee Bar Association, and the Jackson-Madison County Bar Association.[11]
Elections
2022
See also: Tennessee Supreme Court elections, 2022
Tennessee Supreme Court Western Section, Roger A. Page's seat
Roger A. Page was retained to the Tennessee Supreme Court Western Section on August 4, 2022 with 72.1% of the vote.
Retention Vote |
% |
Votes |
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| ✔ | Yes |
72.1
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450,681 | ||
No |
27.9
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174,269 | |||
Total Votes |
624,950 | ||||
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2016
January
Page was appointed to the Tennessee Supreme Court in January 2016 by Governor Bill Haslam (R). On February 22, 2016, Page became the first supreme court justice to be confirmed by the Tennessee state legislature and was sworn in that day.[2] He succeeded Justice Gary Wade, who retired in September 2015.[3][4][5]
August
- See also: Tennessee Supreme Court elections, 2016
Page was retained to the Tennessee Supreme Court by voters on August 4, 2016.
| Tennessee Supreme Court Retention, Roger A. Page, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Name | Yes votes | |
 Roger A. Page | 70.88% | |
| Source: Tennessee Secretary of State Official Results | ||
2014
- See also: Tennessee judicial elections, 2014
Page was retained to the Court of Criminal Appeals with 64.9 percent of the vote on August 7, 2014. [10][12]
2012
- See also: Tennessee judicial elections, 2012
Page was retained to the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals with 71.16% of the vote on August 2, 2012.[13]
2011
Page was selected by the Tennessee Judicial Nominating Commission as one of three candidates to replace the late Judge J.C. McLin who passed away in September. Governor Bill Haslam interviewed Roger A. Page, J. Ross Dyer, and J. Robert Carter and selected Judge Page in December 2011.[14]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Roger A. Page did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Analysis
Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)
Last updated: June 15, 2020
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.
The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.[15]
The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:
- Strong Democrat
- Mild Democrat
- Indeterminate[16]
- Mild Republican
- Strong Republican
This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.
Roger
Page
Tennessee
- Partisan Confidence Score:
Mild Republican - Judicial Selection Method:
Appointed with retention - Key Factors:
- Donated less than $2,000 to Republican candidates
- Appointed by a Republican governor
- State was a Republican trifecta at time of appointment
Partisan Profile
Details:
Page donated $1,000 to Republican candidates. He was appointed by Gov. Bill Haslam (R). At the time of his appointment, the state of Tennessee was a Republican trifecta.
State supreme court judicial selection in Tennessee
- See also: Judicial selection in Tennessee
The five justices on the Tennessee Supreme Court are selected through assisted appointment. The governor selects a nominee from a list of recommended candidates from a judicial nominating commission. The nominee must be confirmed by the Tennessee General Assembly. Justices face retention elections at the end of their terms.[17][18][19]
The appointment system was adjusted in 2014 with the passage of a state ballot measure titled Tennessee Judicial Selection, Amendment 2. The measure added the required confirmation by the Tennessee legislature. While Tennessee state law changed in 2014 to eliminate the judicial nominating commission and require legislative approval of the governor’s appointee, Gov. Bill Haslam’s Executive Order No. 54 and Gov. Bill Lee’s subsequent Executive Order No. 87 re-established the judicial nominating commission for appointments. Accordingly, Tennessee’s process is effectively assisted appointment with legislative confirmation.
Qualifications
To serve on this court, a judge must be:
- authorized to practice law in the state;
- a state resident for five years; and
- at least 35 years old.[18]
Chief justice
According to the Tennessee Constitution, the justices of the supreme court select the chief justice.[20] The chief justice serves a four-year term.
Vacancies
If a midterm vacancy occurs on the court, the governor appoints a replacement justice from a list from a judicial nominating commission. The nominee must be confirmed by both chambers of the state legislature. If filling an interim vacancy, the appointee stands for retention in the next general election at least 30 days after the vacancy occurred. The retained judge serves out the remainder of the unexpired term before again running for retention to serve a full eight-year term.[17][18] Judges are voted upon by the voters of the whole state.[21]
The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Tennessee Courts, "Justice Page elected Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court," August 24, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Knoxville News Sentinel, "State's newest Supreme Court justice is sworn in," February 23, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Tennessean, "TN Supreme Court candidates set for public hearing," October 26, 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tennessee Secretary of State, "2016 State and Federal Candidates," accessed June 30, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Tennessean, "Lawmakers confirm Roger Page to Tennessee Supreme Court," accessed April 23, 2016
- ↑ The Tennessean, "Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Roger Page to retire in 2024," November 20, 2023
- ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
- ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Tennessee State Courts, "Roger A. Page," accessed February 25, 2016
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 WJLE.com, "Voters head back to the polls in August (Early voting in July)," archived October 21, 2014
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Tennessee State Courts, "2014 Judicial Evaluation Report for Judge Roger A. Page," accessed May 26, 2014
- ↑ Tennessee Secretary of State, "Unofficial Election Results," archived August 11 2014
- ↑ Tennessee Secretary of State, "Judicial Certification County" accessed July 30, 2021
- ↑ The Memphis Daily News, "List of Judicial Finalists Sent to Haslam," October 25, 2011
- ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
- ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Lexis Nexis, "Tennessee Code Annotated § 17-4-101," accessed April 25, 2024
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Tennessee," archived September 11, 2014
- ↑ American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Tennessee; Judicial Nominating Commissions," accessed September 30, 2021
- ↑ TNCourts.gov, "JUSTICE SHARON LEE ELECTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE TENNESSEE SUPREME COURT," August 14, 2014
- ↑ National Center for State Courts, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Tennessee," accessed August 5, 2016
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