DeAndra Roaché

Personal Bio

Job Title: Arbitrator

Areas of Expertise:

DeAndra Roaché, FCIArb. is an arbitrator, mediator, DRB member with a full-time domestic and international ADR practice. She specializes in labor, employment, and construction disputes, and she serves on numerous major arbitration and mediation panels. Ms. Roaché is an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona’s law school where she teaches Mediation. She also serves on the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation’s Region 1 (US, Canada, Caribbean) Board of Directors and chairs its Mid-Atlantic Region of DRB Practitioners. She has co-chaired DRB Working Groups for the CPR Institute and is an architect of their Dispute Board Model Rules.

Prior to starting her ADR practice, she worked at large global law firms in Washington, DC before amassing extensive experience in the Labor/Collective Bargaining, Arbitration and Mediation processes unique to the Railroad industry as a labor relations professional in the Washington, DC corporate office of “America’s Railroad”- Amtrak.