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Biography |
For twenty years, Judge Robinson was a Connecticut Superior Court judge, presiding over hundreds of trials and deciding or assisting in the settlement of a variety of matters, including
commercial, contract, employment, family, housing, insurance, juvenile, medical and professional malpractice, municipal, personal injury, products liability and zoning cases. As a judge, she
wrote over 400 judicial decisions. At the time of her retirement, she was the Administrative Judge for the Judicial District of New Haven, and for many years prior to that, she was the Civil
Presiding Judge in the New Have Judicial District, the busiest Civil docket in the state at the time.
Judge Robinson complements her knowledge as a jurist with a wealth of experience as a practicing attorney. She was both a plaintiff’s lawyer at a nationally renowned boutique law firm
in Bridgeport, and a litigation partner with a defense practice at a multi-state, New Haven-based law firm. This background allows Judge Robinson to bring to the ADR community a unique
perspective to assist litigants from all walks of life in resolving their matters.
Judge Robinson also learned firsthand about the power and efficacy of ADR in achieving righteous outcomes. Melding her interests in ADR and workplace equity, Judge Robinson
established Robinson Diversity Consulting through which she has helped litigants and prospective litigants resolve disputes informally and outside of court, as well as addressed
workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion concerns.
Judge Robinson is a James W. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation. She received the Connecticut Law Tribune’s Distinguished Leader Award in 2019; the Edwin Archer Randolph Diversity Award from the Lawyers’ Collaborative for Diversity in 2017; the Judicial Award from the Connecticut Trial Lawyers’ Association; and the Diversity Award in 2014, presented by the Young Lawyers’ Section of the Connecticut Bar Association. |
