Jane Sullivan Roberts
Partner, Major Lindsey & Africa
Chair of the Public Service and Public Interest Committee
Prior to joining Major, Lindsey & Africa, Jane was the executive partner for talent development at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Before assuming this role, she was a partner in the firm’s Global Technology Group, focusing on IT sourcing and satellite system contracting. Jane also practiced litigation at Shaw Pittman and Dorsey & Whitney in a wide variety of matters before various courts and decision-making bodies. In 1992, Jane litigated before Australian courts with then Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks, a leading law firm in Australia. She also clerked for the Honorable James M. Sprouse, Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, during the 1984-85 term. Before entering the legal profession, she taught mathematics at the high school and college levels and was a systems engineer at Bell Laboratories.