About Lilie Ann
Lilie Ann McRoberts studied political science and law in North Dakota. She earned a B.S. in Political Science from North Dakota State University in 2011 and a J.D. from the University of North Dakota School of Law the same year. Her academic record included editorial roles and student leadership tied to constitutional and human rights work.
Early in her career she combined scholarship and practical experience. She served as associate editor of the North Dakota Law Review in 2012 and was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and Interdisciplinary Studies in 2013. During law school she founded and served as president of a student chapter of the American Constitution Society. She also worked as program manager at the Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies in 2012 and spent a summer internship at the Center for Justice and Accountability in 2013. After graduation she took a federal clerkship in 2014 as a judicial law clerk for the United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan.
McRoberts moved into government practice in the years that followed. In 2015 she joined the Barnes County State’s Lawyer Office as an assistant state’s lawyer and later held the city lawyer position for the City of Valley City in 2017. She returned to county-level work in 2019 as an assistant state’s lawyer in Stutsman County, North Dakota, and in 2020 served as an assistant county lawyer in Cass County, Minnesota. She spent 2021 in private practice leadership as president of Schoenack Law, P.C., and in 2022 held the post of deputy city lawyer in the Civil Division for the City of Rochester, Minnesota.
She is the founding lawyer of McRoberts Law, PLLC. That firm anchors the most recent phase of her career and reflects years spent in municipal and county legal work, state-level positions and a federal clerkship. McRoberts is admitted to practice in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Outside of casework she holds a Microsoft Office Specialist certification for Word (2002). That credential underscores a practical approach to managing documents and court filings.
Her résumé traces a steady course through public-sector law, editorial scholarship and local government practice. She currently concentrates her practice on municipal and civil matters from her work at McRoberts Law, PLLC.
