Phoebe Alison Roaf (born March 8, 1964) is an American prelate who is the fourth and current Bishop of West Tennessee.
[1][2] Roaf worked as a researcher and analyst for the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission in Virginia and for other ventures in Philadelphia, for six years.
[1][3] In November 2018, Roaf was chosen as the Fourth Bishop of West Tennessee by a vote of delegates to the Annual Diocesan Convention.
[5] She was consecrated by Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry,[4] who said "“To be sure, she and the people of West Tennessee are making history as she is the first woman as well as the first African American to hold such a position.
And that way of love is the way to life for us all, Black or white, Anglo or Latino, rich or poor, liberal or conservative, gay or straight, old or young.