Roger A. Meyer is an amateur creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry writer. He writes regular letters to the editor to various news organizations. He has published professionally more than twenty articles in the Journal of Psychology and Theology, East Tennessee Business Journal, Commerce Magazine, Community News, Insight, Innovative Leader, The Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga Times-Free Press, Chattanooga Outlook, The CHRA Newsletter, CHIP CHATS, Birds and Blooms and Chattanooga Magazine. He has submitted over sixty letters to the editor and opinion essays. He also wrote for, edited and published Productivity Enhancement from 1997 through 2000 as well as many handouts, brochures, pamphlets and business manuals over his career.

He attended the University of Illinois, Cincinnati Bible Seminary, and has a BA in Psychology, Bible and History from Milligan College, TN. After graduate study at Louisiana State University, Roger received both a MA and Ph.D. in Psychology. He Interned in Clinical Psychology at the Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX. He later studied at UTC for additional graduate credits. He has hundreds of continuing education hours in psychology, consulting and religious seminars.

Roger was born and raised in rural central Illinois near New Salem and Springfield, the Land of Lincoln. After college, he enlisted in the Navy and went to Aviation Officers Candidate School and then Flight training. Finding he lacked the coordination for precision flying, he became a weapons safety and then Avionics Weapons Officer of VA-163. After graduate school and his internship, he lived in the mountains of Western North Carolina. He moved with his family to Chattanooga where he has remained since, working first as a psychologist and later as a management consultant.

He developed his own mental health private practice in 1980 and built it to include six associates. He had the privilege to work over the years with many wonderful professionals there, at Smoky Mountain and Hiawassee Mental Health Centers and at numerous hospitals in Chattanooga, Southeast Tennessee and Western North Carolina. Later, he retired from psychology and built his consulting practice to include two associates.

Professionally he participated in local, state and national psychological societies, the Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Training and Development, Chattanooga Human Resources Association and the Brainerd-East Brainerd Council of the Chamber of Commerce.

Roger developed the Chattanooga Bible Institute Counseling Service in 1982 and continued to serve there until he retired as a psychologist in 1995.

He helped to found the Chattanooga Association of Clinical Pastoral Care in 1983 and continues on the board. He founded Youth Experiencing Diversity, a program to help high school students understand those different from themselves. He has served on the Committee on Ministry of the Presbytery of East Tennessee and assisted with Chattanooga CONTACT Teleministry, Inner-City Ministries, Chattanooga Resource Foundation, The Racial Reconciliation Task Force, Community Kitchen, and Cross Trainers Advisory Committee. Service to the community and others is another focus of his life and he enjoys working with children, youth and adults who have needs or interests where he can help. He has been a member of the Lions Club, and Kiwanis He assisted with and/or served on the board of: the Boy Scouts, Friends of East Brainerd, Partners-in-Education, Hamilton Place Plan Task Force, Chattanooga Teen Agency Alliance, and the Regional Task Force on Mental Health & Neighborhood Relations. He is active in the Chattanooga Woodcarvers Club and the Tri-State Woodturners and enjoys his woodshop at home. He reads books and magazines voraciously. Roger enjoys the outdoors as a hiker, kayaker, canoeist, gardener and birdwatcher. He is married to Lynn, an elementary ESOL public school teacher, and has two adult children, a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren.

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