JANE Sullivan Roberts is the managing director of Major, Lindsey and Africa, one of the country’s leading attorney search consulting firms.
She holds her Irish heritage in high regard.  Her mother is a native of Limerick, while her paternal grandparents hailed from counties Kerry and Fermanagh.  
Roberts owns a holiday cottage in Ireland with her husband, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. They have two children.
Roberts is on the board of trustees of her alma mater, the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, from which she graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1976.  In 1977 she received an education diploma from the University of Melbourne in Australia. She received a master’s from Brown three years later, and a JD from Georgetown Law School in 1984.
Roberts also sits on the board of governors of the John Carroll Society, and the board of directors of Citizens for Affordable Energy.  She is a Rotary Foundation Fellowship Partner with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

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