Pamela Roper — Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Cousins Properties

Ms. Pamela F. Roper, also known as Pam, has been an Executive Vice President of Cousins Properties Incorporated since February 14, 2017 and has been its General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since October 2012. Ms. Roper is responsible for Cousins??? legal and regulatory compliance, corporate governance and risk management and mitigation. In addition, she is responsible for the execution of all of Cousins??? transactions, including debt financings, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures. She served as Senior Vice President of Cousins Properties Incorporated from October 2012 to February 14, 2017. From August 2003 to September 2012, she served as Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary at Cousins Properties Incorporated with primary responsibility for all legal aspects of the leasing and asset management groups of Cousins, including oversight of all office and retail leases and of all litigation affecting the retail or asset portfolio, including bankruptcy matters and trademark defense. Prior to Cousins, she practiced with the Atlanta-based national law firm of Sutherland, where her focus was fairly evenly divided between development, leasing and lending, with the majority of that time spent representing retail developers in those practice areas. Ms. Roper holds B.A. in English from University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; M.A. in English from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina and a J.D. from Duke University Law School, Durham, North Carolina.