Jane Sullivan Roberts, wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, recently came under scrutiny after her former colleague sent a letter to Congress and the Justice Department complaining that Jane’s work as a legal recruiter would cause a conflict of interest at the Supreme Court.
Boston lawyer Kendal Price accused Justice John Roberts of failing to acknowledge the full details of his wife’s work during his ethical disclosures, reported the New York Times. Justices should disclose information about their spouse’s work and salary, Price argued in his letter.
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According to reports, while Jane Roberts quit her job as a law partner when John was appointed as Chief Justice in 2005, she allegedly earned millions of dollars in commissions by helping recruit lawyers at firms, including some that had business before the high court.
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Who is Jane Sullivan Roberts?
Jane Sullivan Roberts is a lawyer at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Previously, she worked as a recruiter for the recognized legal recruitment firm Major, Lindsay & Africa. She is also on the Board of Trustees at the College of the Holy Cross.
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Sullivan was born into an Irish Catholic family in the Bronx. She grew up with her four siblings. Her father worked as a mechanic at a post office and her mother was an administrative assistant in a hospital.
Jane completed an undergraduate degree in mathematics at the College of the Holy Cross and a Diploma of Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia. She also earned an MSc in applied mathematics from Brown University. She is a 1984 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable James M Sprouse of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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She worked as a systems engineer at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, before entering the practice of law.
Sullivan met John Roberts at the beach house in 1986 while they were both attorneys in DC. They started dating several years later after the former returned to the US from Australia in 1993. The couple married in 1996 in a traditional ceremony at St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Washington, DC. They are parents to their adopted children, Jack and Josephine.
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She is a member of the Board of Visitors of Georgetown University Law Center, a Parliamentarian of the John Carroll Society, and a Washington, DC Founding Member and former Co-Chair of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum and a former Member of its Global Advisory Board.