Governor Kemp appointed him to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs board in 2020, where he subsequently served as both Chair and Vice-Chair, providing oversight to the state agency responsible for operating 65 programs and managing nearly $300 million in state and federal funding annually. Burge also served as a member of the State Ethics Commission.

Throughout his extensive and accomplished career, Burge has served on many community and statewide committees and civic organizations, including the Georgia Real Estate Commission, the Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority Board, the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, the Atlanta Bar Association and the State Bar of Georgia, the board of the Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Visitors of Emory University, and the Trustees of Buckhead Christian Ministry. He is a graduate of the Midtown Alliance Leadership Program, the Coverdell Leadership Institute, and Leadership Atlanta. 

Burge earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University. He and his family live in Atlanta.