Roberta Oluwaseun Roberts

Roberta Oluwaseun Roberts is a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation – Appellate Section. She entered on duty with the DOJ through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 2015. Ms. Roberts has previously served as a judicial law clerk, attorney advisor, and Special Assistant United States Attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Ms. Roberts earned her Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School, where she was a Writing Fellow in the GW Law Writing Center, Senior Notes Editor of the International Law in Domestic Courts Journal, and a member of the Moot Court Board.  She received the Judge Albert H. Grenadier Award for Excellence in Oral Advocacy at graduation. Ms. Roberts is also a member of GW Law’s inaugural Public Interest Advisory Council.

In addition to teaching Legal Research and Writing for International LLM, MSL, and Exchange Students I online, Ms. Roberts developed the asynchronous component of the online course for GW Law.  

Outside of her professional work, Ms. Roberts runs an online community of more than 700 Christian women law students, Bar exam takers, and attorneys in the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe called Grace for the Grind®. She is also a Bar exam coach and created an online Christian Bar exam coaching program called Blessed & Barred®.