Sharon K. Roberson, Esq. is a seasoned C – Suite executive with over 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. She serves as President and CEO of YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee, the largest domestic violence service provider in Tennessee. Since joining the YWCA, Sharon has led the Weaver Domestic Violence Center’s expansion. She has also broadened the agency’s life-saving services, including adding the only Emergency DV Text Line in Tennessee and implementing a children’s program at Weaver. Under Sharon’s leadership, the YW has grown all of its school-based programs, including expanding the Amend Together healthy masculinity program to eight other YWCA’s across the country. During COVID, the YW has expanded its adult learning center programing and career services, and this summer will open the first-ever pet shelter in the State for pets of domestic violence victims.

Sharon has renewed the YWCA’s focus on racial justice by implementing a social justice and advocacy program. During Sharon’s tenure, the YWCA in Nashville has received the largest single donation in its 123-year history.

Sharon has received community recognition, including being a two-time Athena nominee, Nashville Bar Fellow, Leadership Nashville alum, Nashville Business Journal Women of Influence, and being inducted into the YWCA Academy for Women of Achievement. Sharon has been named one of Nashville’s Most Powerful Women by the Nashville Post and four times one of Nashville’s Most Admired CEOs by the Nashville Business Journal three years in a row. In 2022 she received the prestigious Napier-Looby Bar Foundation Z. Alexander Looby Lifetime Achievement Award.

Under Sharon’s leadership, the YWCA was named a 2018 person of the year by the Nashville Tennessean.

Sharon presently serves on the Children’s Hospital at TriStar Centennial Community Advisory Board and the Regions Bank Advisory Board.
Sharon graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Economics and a law degree.