About Chastity
Chastity Roberts built a legal life that moves between classrooms, corporate compliance desks and the courthouse. She began her formal studies at the University of Southern California, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and pre-law. She then attended Whittier Law School, receiving her J.D. in 2004. Early exposure to government work came in 2000, when she interned in the Vice President’s Office of Communication at the White House.
Roberts’s law school years included practical campus roles. She served as a student library assistant and took on law clerk positions that would shape her early legal work. In 2003 she worked as a law clerk at Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth and as a certified law clerk at the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. After graduation she moved into staff legal positions, including a stint as a legal assistant at the San Diego District Attorney’s Office in 2006.
Over the next decade Roberts shifted into financial services and compliance. She held analyst roles at ING Financial Network Investments beginning in 2007 and later took positions as a designated principal at LPL Financial in 2009 and as a senior compliance analyst at MetLife in 2012. Those roles involved regulatory review, policy development and internal monitoring. She continued to work across public and private sectors, serving as in-house counsel and grant manager for Bay Vista Methodist Heights, Inc. in 2019.
Her résumé also includes time in education. Roberts taught at Bayview Baptist Church in 2013 and worked as a substitute teacher for the Escondido Union School District in 2015. In 2023 she added an academic appointment, joining the University of La Verne College of Law as a visiting assistant professor of law. That role brought her back into the classroom and into legal scholarship and instruction.
In 2023 Roberts founded Exquisite Law Office, APC, where she is listed as the founding lawyer. She holds membership in the Illinois State Bar, a membership that began in 2011 and remains current. Her civic life includes long-standing service in Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., where she has served in officer roles such as treasurer and secretary since 1999.
Colleagues describe Roberts as someone who moves comfortably between regulatory detail and practical problem-solving. She maintains licensure in multiple jurisdictions, practices in both California and Illinois, and balances teaching with private practice. Her current practice concentrates on compliance and regulatory matters, counsel for nonprofit organizations, and legal services for financial-sector clients.
