Editing Alan Page (section)

== Post-career ==

===Broadcasting===
After his playing career he dabbled in the media, first as a commentator on [[TBS (TV network)|Turner Broadcasting System]] covering the ''College Football Game of the Week'' series during the Fall of 1982 and then as a commentator on [[National Public Radio]] in 1982–1983.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

===Legal career===
Long before Page's football career came to a close, he was laying the groundwork for his future role as a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. While still playing for the Vikings, Page attended the [[University of Minnesota Law School]], from which he received a Juris Doctor in 1978. After graduating, he worked at the Minneapolis law firm [[Lindquist and Vennum]] from 1979 to 1984 outside the football season. Page was appointed Special Assistant Attorney General in 1985, and soon thereafter promoted to Assistant Attorney General.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mn.gov/law-library/research-links/justice-bios/alan-page.jsp|title=Alan C. Page|website=Minnesota State Law Library|language=en|access-date=November 29, 2018}}</ref>

In 1992, Page was elected to an open seat as an associate justice of the [[Minnesota Supreme Court]], becoming the first African-American to serve on that court. He was reelected in 1998 (becoming the biggest vote-getter in Minnesota history), again in 2004, and for a final time in 2010: Minnesota has [[mandatory retirement]] for judges at the end of the month in which they turn 70.

On January 7, 2009, Page was appointed by Chief Justice [[Eric Magnuson]] to select the three-judge panel that heard the election contest brought by [[Norm Coleman]] in the [[United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008|2008 U.S. Senate election]].<ref>{{cite web| title = Top justice won't pick Minn. Senate lawsuit judges| publisher=Minnesota Public Radio| date = January 7, 2009| url = http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/01/07/top_justice_wont_pick_minn_senate_lawsuit_judges/| access-date =January 7, 2009}}</ref>