Charles Edward Roach (1874 - 1935) was an alumnus of Georgetown University, a lawyer, and professor at Georgetown Law School. He earned three degrees from Georgetown: an A.B. in 1895, an LL. B. in 1897, and an LL. M. in 1898.
Roach was born on November 17, 1874 to William N. Roach and Mary Frances Liebermann in Washington, D.C. His father, also a Georgetown alumnus (1859), had been a United States Senator from North Dakota while his maternal grandfather had been the first chair of surgery at the Georgetown University Medical Department when it was established in 1850.