Early Life
Roberts grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where she played basketball and tennis, among other sports. She attended Pass Christian High School and graduated as the class of 1979 salutatorian. She is the daughter of Lucimarian Tolliver and Colonel Lawrence E. Roberts. In a 2006 presentation to the assembled student body at Abilene Christian University, Roberts credited her parents as cultivating the "three Ds: Discipline, Determination, and "De Lord." She is the youngest of four children with siblings Sally-Ann, Lawrence, Jr. "Butch", and Dorothy. Her father was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen.
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