Teresa Roseborough

Biography

Teresa Roseborough is Executive Vice President and General Counsel at The Home Depot. She is responsible for The Home Depot’s legal functions, government relations, corporate communications, and external affairs. She also serves as corporate secretary, where she acts as a liaison between the board of directors and the company and is responsible for all corporate governance matters. Teresa’s prior legal experience includes government service as deputy assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court, law clerk for Judge James Dickson Phillips of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and an employee of the Department of Defense in West Germany. Teresa was named one of 25 Influential Black Women in Business by The Network Journal and as one of America’s top black attorneys by Black Enterprise. Her civic involvement includes serving as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the U.S., co-chair of the board of directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, and as a member of the Board of Overseers of the RAND Corporation Institute for Civil Justice. She has a BA from the University of Virginia, an M.Ed. from Boston University, and a JD from UNC School of Law.