Donna Ruth Roberts

Donna Ruth Roberts is a retired businesswoman living in Oxford. A native of Yazoo City, she is a 1965 graduate of the University of Mississippi where she majored in English and Sociology. Her graduate work in Business was at the University of Memphis. She is a past member of the Ole Miss Business School Advisory Board and a past board member of the Mississippi Small Business Development Center, also at Ole Miss. She serves on the Republican State Executive Committee and is a member of local Republican organizations. Donna Ruth has served on the Millsaps College Board of Trustees since 2013. In the second year of the Oxford Film Festival, she joined as a volunteer and later became a sponsor and board member. A member of First Presbyterian Church, she has two daughters and three grandchildren.