Victoria Ann Roberts, a retired judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has joined JAMS, the largest private provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services worldwide.
For more than two decades, Roberts served on the bench, where she worked on new initiatives in the federal courts and her community. She also handled several high-profile cases, including serving as a mediator in the city of Detroit bankruptcy case in 2013. From 2010 to 2012, she co-chaired a committee that examined ways to improve the racial makeup of federal juries. When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down court proceedings in 2020, she was a key advocate in moving the court to virtual proceedings. Based in the Detroit Resolution Center, Roberts will serve as an arbitrator, mediator, court-appointed neutral, and neutral evaluator. She will handle business/commercial, civil rights, class action/mass tort, employment, personal injury, product liability, securities, federal law, and bankruptcy cases. She is available to conduct sessions in person, as well as virtually, for clients across the country.
“Judge Roberts is a legal trailblazer, leader and champion for diversity and equality. She has decades of experience handling cases across an array of practice areas and is incredibly adept at resolving complex, high stakes matters,” says Chris Poole, CEO of JAMS.
Prior to her tenure on the federal bench, Roberts worked in private practice and represented the United States, the state of Michigan, the Detroit Building Authority, the Economic Development Corp. for the city of Detroit, the American Motors Corp., and individual plaintiffs and defendants. She served as the 62nd president of the State Bar of Michigan. She has served as an international lecturer and educator throughout her career and was also the creator of the Pro Se Legal Assistance Clinic for the Detroit Mercy School of Law and the Early Mediation Program for pro se civil rights cases.
Roberts earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
