Tregenza Roach

Tregenza A. Roach (born August 7, 1959) is a U.S. Virgin Islands politician, attorney and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, since 2019. He previously served as a senator in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands from 2013 to 2019.

Tregenza Roach
12th Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
Incumbent
Assumed office January 7, 2019
Governor	Albert Bryan
Preceded by	Osbert Potter
Personal details
Born	August 7, 1959 Sandy Point Town, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Political party	Democratic
Education	University of the Virgin Islands University of Missouri (BA) University of Connecticut, Hartford (JD)

Early life and education

Tregenza Roach migrated from St. Kitts and Nevis to the United States Virgin Islands at the age of eight to join his parents, Victor and Iona Roach, who had made St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands their home years earlier. After attending St. Thomas Seventh-day Adventist School and V.I. public schools, Roach graduated from Charlotte Amalie High School and attended the College of the Virgin Islands, now known as the University of the Virgin Islands, as a Holstein–Lewis scholar. He earned a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Missouri and launched his career as a reporter for the Virgin Islands Daily News, rising to news editor. He holds a juris doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Roach was a law clerk at various U.S. and V.I. governmental offices, practiced in the Territorial Court's Civil and Family divisions and was an associate attorney at Bornn Bornn Handy and Rashid. He has been a member of the Virgin Islands Bar since 1991.[1][2]

Roach is also an author and poet whose work has been included in several collections of contemporary Caribbean poetry. He was awarded the Margaret Walker Fiction Prize by the Detroit Writers Guild in 1999 and the St. Thomas/ St. John Library Association's Distinguished Caribbean Author Award in 2009.[3]

References

1. "Tregenza Roach". The Virgin Islands Daily News. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. October 16, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
2. "Albert Bryan announces Tregenza Roach as gubernatorial running mate". The Virgin Islands Daily News. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. April 20, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
3. "Tregenza A. Roach". Little Bell Caribbean. Retrieved January 18, 2019.