Judge R. Steven Randolph of Cookeville, TN; ethical troll

The state of Tennessee provided R. Steven Randolph with a law license in 1999 after he graduated from Nashville School of Law.

The Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct found Stevie guilty of engaging in the following misconduct

• Posted a video to social media warning that all kids who skip school in his county will be sentenced to spend their Friday nights at a local recycling center
• Stevie posted a video to the Putnam County School District’s YouTube page showing himself in judicial robes and seated on the bench in a courtroom
• In the video, Stevie said that he had researched truancy as defined in The Volunteer State repeated unexcused absences — and learned that there is a lasting link between truancy and drug use, teen pregnancy, delinquency, and low self-esteem, even into adulthood
• Stevie warned parents that they could “be incarcerated up to ten days at a time” for their children’s unexcused absences

Stevie posted the following comments:

• “I want to really crack down on truancy problems.”.
• “I’ve determined that a school day is made up of about seven hours, and so for every unexcused absence that a kid has in school, they are going to do seven hours of community service at our local recycling center.”
• “Students would spend their evenings “messing around with cardboard, milk jugs, tin cans, whatever they have down at the recycling center”
• “I know from personal experience being down there on a tour that during the summer months, those milk jugs get pretty stinky.”

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the enablers for Judicial Misfits sitting on the Tennessee Supreme Court punished Stevie by gifting him with a complimentary reprimand.

As we speak (ca. October 2023), Stevie continues to dispense his so-called brand of jurisprudence as a Putnam County General Sessions Juvenile and Probate Judge in Cookeville, Tennessee.