Mattie Robertson

Bio

Director Mattie Robertson is a dispute resolution professional who has mediated hundreds of cases, and is certified as a mediator, facilitator, and arbitrator. She has mentored many other professional mediators and conducted numerous conflict resolution trainings and practicums on a variety of topics. Mrs. Robertson spent a decade working in community mediation nonprofits after law school. At SEEDS Community Resolution Center, she oversaw a practicum which trained professional mediators, and managed the Court Mediation Program, which provided same-day mediation services to litigants in the Alameda County Superior Courts. At California Lawyers for the Arts, Mrs. Robertson was Program Director for the Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services (AAMS) serving the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2019, Mrs. Robertson has been Deputy Director of the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at UC Law San Francisco, having served as Interim Director of the Center in 2022. She teaches the Mediation Clinic at UC Law SF supervising student mediators, and at CNDR, she oversees academic classes and extracurricular programs in ADR for the law school, develops practitioner trainings for mediators, attorneys, judges, and government organizations.

Mrs. Robertson the current Co-Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Clinical ADR Committee; former Chair of the Alameda County Bar Association’s ADR Executive Committee; and is a member of the Alameda County Superior Court’s ADR Administration Committee; The Mediation Society; Chabot College’s Administration of Justice Department’s Advisory Board; and, the Bay Area Coalition for Community Mediation (BACCM). She also serves as a mediator for the ADR Program at the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Mrs. Robertson is a graduate of UC Law San Francisco, beginning her mediation career in the school’s Mediation Clinic, and is a graduate of San Francisco State University.

Mrs. Robertson is a proud tribal member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, and currently lives in Oakland with her family.

Education

• San Francisco State University
  B.A., International Relations 2006

• UC Law San Francisco (formerly Hastings)
  J.D., Law 2010