State Senator Dan Roberts represents Senate District 15, which includes Jefferson and Shelby counties. He has served as a State Senator since 2018. He currently serves as Chair of the Contract Review Committee, Chair of the Shelby County Local Legislation committee and sits on the Senate committees for Rules, State Governmental Affairs, Healthcare, Banking & Insurance, Children & Youth Health, Finance & Taxation Education and Fiscal Responsibility & Economic Development.
Since his election, Senator Roberts helped draft, co-sponsored and pass the Alabama Business Competitive Tax bill and was the co-chair of the Joint Legislative Task Force on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which led to this bill’s introduction. He has sponsored and passed important pieces of legislation that dealt with Telehealth, Economic Development and Taxation.
Roberts graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science in Building Construction and worked for Blount International in Alabama, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia. He earned a Masters of Science in Real Estate Development and Urban Affairs from Georgia State University. While in graduate school, he started a successful international trading company with an office in South Korea. After a season with Jim Wilson and Associates in Montgomery, he founded his own real estate sales and development firm in Birmingham.