Bio

Gary Lee Roberts

Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College (1967-1969) / Basketball

Roberts played basketball on the 1968 team and the 1969 Mississippi Association of Junior Colleges champion team. He was the captain of the team his sophomore year. Both years the team won the South Division championship. He won the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College Basketball Award in 1968 and was chosen All-State in both 1968 and 1969.

While at Gulf Coast, Roberts was elected Phi Theta Kappa national president for 1968-1969. He received both an academic and basketball scholarship to the American University in Washington, D.C., and graduated in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in government and public administration. He graduated from The University of Mississippi School of Law in 1974 with a juris doctorate and worked in Australia in a corporate in-house legal capacity for Mars Inc. After moving to Jackson County in 1976, he practiced private law. He served more than 23 years as a municipal judge for the city of Gautier, retiring from that position in 2011.

Roberts received the Sam Owen Trophy in 1988 for contributions to MGCCC.