Dan Roberts

State Senate District No. 15

Party: Republican

Residence: Mountain Brook

Political experience: Elected to Alabama Senate in 2018.

Professional experience: Owns a real estate sales and development firm; in graduate school, started an international import/export trading company with an office in South Korea; worked for Blount International in Alabama, South Korea and Saudi Arabia, and for Jim Wilson and Associates in Montgomery.

Civic experience: Roberts has served with the Entrepreneurs Round Table, Alabama Policy Institute, Young Business Leaders, Campus Outreach International and College Golf Fellowship. He has been board chairman at Racerunners and Leachman Ministries in Great Falls, Virginia. Roberts was a youth baseball coach. At Briarwood Presbyterian Church, he serves as an elder, is a board member at Briarwood Christian School and is chairman of Briarwood Ballet. At Auburn, Roberts was a Student Government Association senator, vice president and moderator of Simulated Model United Nations, and was chaplain of the baseball team.

Education: Bachelor of science in building construction, Auburn University; master of science in real estate development and urban affairs from Georgia State University.

Main issues: Economic development with tax reform and deregulation of business; education, including expansion of vocational training for workforce development and distance learning to connect high schools to universities; smaller government; protection of Second Amendment rights. He is anti-abortion and wants to protect religious liberties.

Campaign Info: www.danrobertsforsenate.com