Michele A. Roberts

Michelle A. Roberts (born 1956) is an American attorney and former executive director of the National Basketball Players Association. She was the first woman to hold that position and the first woman to head a major professional sports union in North America. Quotes All I want is to be treated with respect and have my professionalism be honored. People who are out to get you either to destroy you, on the one extreme, or simply to humiliate and insult you or disrespect you. Staff S. I. The Unrelenting: Most Powerful Women in Sports https://www.si.com/sports-illustrated/2020/10/06/the-unrelenting-women-in-sports-daily-cover January 6, 2022 Sports Illustrated en-us I know that I'm constitutionally incapable of being talked down to. Barriers are constantly and arbitrarily erected with systems and institutional power telling people what is and is not possible. I didn’t take the job with the intention of breaking any glass ceilings. I’m not an activist, I’m just Michele. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. Gelles David September 11, 2020 She Helped Put ‘Black Lives Matter’ on N.B.A. Courts en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/business/michele-roberts-nba-corner-office.html January 6, 2022 0362-4331 External links Category:Lawyers from the United States Category:Labor leaders Category:Women in sports Category:20th-century American businesswomen Category:Women in law Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:Women born in the 1950s