Jay D. Roth

Jay D. Roth (born October 23, 1946) is an American lawyer who serves as the national executive director of the Directors Guild of America (DGA), the 16,000 member entertainment guild representing the economic and creative rights of directors and members of the directorial team working in film, television, documentaries, news, sports, commercials and new media throughout the world.

Roth was born and raised in Roslyn Heights, New York and graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Vermont in 1968, where he served as editor-in-chief of his school newspaper and a law degree from Boston University School of Law in 1971, where he spent his free time at the legal aid center in Dorchester protecting tenants’ rights.

After graduating law school, Roth moved to Portland, Oregon and worked for legal services doing civil rights and other civil and criminal litigation. In 1973, he moved to Los Angeles, California doing civil rights and labor litigation for a firm that eventually became Taylor, Roth, Bush & Geffner, where Roth served as managing partner and specialized in representing entertainment guilds, labor organizations and pension, health and welfare funds in labor, entertainment, bankruptcy and transactional matters, including the United Teachers Los Angeles, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Directors Guild of America and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

He also served as counsel to several entertainment guilds including the Writers Guild of America (WGA), DGA, and SAG as part of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations in 1993 and as a member of the U.S. government delegation to the treaty negotiations at the World Intellectual Property Organization. He was a founding board member of the Franco-American Cultural Fund of which the Motion Picture Association (MPA), DGA, SAG, WGA, and Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) are members.

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