Roberta Cooper Ramo is a lawyer in practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She served as the American Law Institute’s President from 2008 to 2017, the Institute's first woman president. Roberta also previously served as president of the American Bar Association from 1995 to 1996, the first woman in history to lead the largest nationwide organization of attorneys. In 2011, she was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.