Faculty Profile: Roberta Kustoff

Roberta Nevil Kustoff was appointed by Governor Bill Lee in December 2023 to serve as the Board's Chairman. Kustoff is an attorney who has practiced law since earning her Juris Doctor in 1998. She spent several years in private practice before joining the Shelby County Trustee's Office in 2010, where she served as the Delinquent Tax Attorney. In that role, she represented county government in Chancery, Circuit and General Sessions Courts.

A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Kustoff is a graduate of Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, and earned her  J. D. at the University of Memphis. She has been a member of the Tennessee and Memphis Bar Associations, the Association of Women Attorneys of Memphis, and the Memphis Estate Planning Council. She has also volunteered through Subsidium and the Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary. She was appointed to the parole board in January of 2016.