Roberts is president of Roberts Brothers Commercial & Property Management, Inc. in Mobile - a full service commercial brokerage firm that specializes in commercial sales, land and site acquisition, property management and development activities. He has served as president of the Alabama Association of Realtors and on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Realtors. He was confirmed by the Senate as an Auburn Trustee on April 10, 2012. Roberts is the former chairman of the board of the New Orleans branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and served on many community boards in the Mobile area. He has been greatly involved in the affairs of Auburn University - National Capital Campaign Committee and co-chair of the Mobile/Baldwin County area; Board of Directors of the Auburn Alumni Association, etc - since his graduation in 1972 in Industrial Management. He has been married to Gale Heggeman Roberts for 32 years and they attend St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Mobile.