State Bar of Arizona
Roberta Tepper is the Chief Member Services Officer for the State Bar of Arizona, where she manages a team responsible for member-facing services including practice management assistance, through Practice 2.0; the Member Assistance Program; Continuing Legal Education; the Bar’s certified specialist program, mentor program, sections and divisions, and publications; as well as the Bar’s Resource Center and membership services, mandatory continuing legal education, and the marketing for those services. Roberta has been with the State Bar of Arizona since starting as Bar Counsel and then Senior Bar Counsel with the Lawyer Regulation Office, before stepping into the role of Lawyer Assistance Programs Director, a position she held for many before her promotion to Chief Member Services Officer. Before coming to the State Bar of Arizona, Roberta was an Assistant District Attorney in Charlotte, North Carolina, and then worked in court management for the Superior Court of Delaware.
Ms. Tepper is a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the Arizona Supreme Court and serves as a member of the Arizona Judicial College Board. She is an active member of the Law Practice Division of the American Bar Association, and currently serves as the Division’s Chair-Elect (2025-26), is the Feature Editor for Law Practice Magazine, a member of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, Women Rainmakers, Finance Committee, and the Strategy and Planning Committee, and served as the co-Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2021. Roberta also serves on the Arizona Women Lawyers Association Board of Directors and Maricopa Chapter Steering Committee; she is a past President of the Board of Directors and of the Maricopa Chapter.
Roberta was inducted in 2025 as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, is a Fastcase 50 honoree (2019), and was selected as a 2021 Women of Legal Tech honoree by the ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center. This year, Roberta received the Sarah Herring Sorin Award, named for Arizona’s first women lawyer, in recognition of her support and encouragement for the advancement of women in the legal profession, from the Arizona Women Lawyers Association. She has chaired and co-chaired the Practice Management Advisors of North America and remains an active member.
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