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==Judicial career==​

==Judicial career==​

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Robinson won a [[special election]] to the 26th district court on October 23, 1999, to fill the seat vacated by [[Harmon Drew, Jr.]], who was instead elected in 1998 to a ten-year term on the  Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit, based in [[Shreveport]]. Then a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Robinson handily defeated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] Whitley Robert "Whit" Graves (born October 1954) of Bossier City, 17,749 (60.8 percent) to 11,442 (39.2 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10231999/10231999_MultiParish.html|title=Results for Election Date: 10/23/1999|publisher=[[Louisiana Secretary of State]]|accessdate=April 26, 2014}}</ref> Robinson since switched his registration to [[Independevoter|Independent]].<ref name=voterportal/> Robinson was elected district judge three months after the death of his wife Cynthia W. "Cindy" Robinson, who succumbed at the age of forty-eight of a [[brain tumor]]. Like her husband, she was an LSU graduate and had been a teacher and a [[business]]woman. The couple had two sons, Eric and Kyle Robinson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/caddo/obits/july992.txt|title=Cynthia W. "Cindy" Robinson|publisher=files.usgwarachives.net|accessdate=April 26, 2014}}</ref> Judge Robinson subsequently married the former Beth Conrad Langston (born October 1962), a Bossier City attorney.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=Beth&qmi=C&qn=Robinson&qcs=Bossier+City%2C+LA&focusfirst=1|title=Beth C. Robinson|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=April 26, 2014}}</ref>​

Robinson won a [[special election]] to the 26th district court on October 23, 1999, to fill the seat vacated by Richard Harmon Drew, Jr., who was instead elected in 1998 to a ten-year term on the  Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit, based in [[Shreveport]]. Then a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Robinson handily defeated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] Whitley Robert "Whit" Graves (born October 1954) of Bossier City, 17,749 (60.8 percent) to 11,442 (39.2 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10231999/10231999_MultiParish.html|title=Results for Election Date: 10/23/1999|publisher=[[Louisiana Secretary of State]]|accessdate=April 26, 2014}}</ref> Robinson since switched his registration to [[Independent voter|Independent]].<ref name=voterportal/> Robinson was elected district judge three months after the death of his wife Cynthia W. "Cindy" Robinson, who succumbed at the age of forty-eight of a brain tumor. Like her husband, she was an LSU graduate and had been a teacher and a [[business]]woman. The couple had two sons, Eric and Kyle Robinson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/caddo/obits/july992.txt|title=Cynthia W. "Cindy" Robinson|publisher=files.usgwarachives.net|accessdate=April 26, 2014}}</ref> Judge Robinson subsequently married the former Beth Conrad Langston (born October 1962), a Bossier City attorney.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=Beth&qmi=C&qn=Robinson&qcs=Bossier+City%2C+LA&focusfirst=1|title=Beth C. Robinson|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=April 26, 2014}}</ref>​

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Robinson's judgeship came up for election for another six-year term on November 4, 2014. Whit Graves, who lost to Robinson in 1999 and to Mike Nerren in 2012, was expected to run again but instead announced that he would seek to unseat DA [[Schuyler Marvin]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], a race which he subsequently lost. In addition to Nerren, Robinson's court colleagues included [[Ford E. Stinson, Jr.]], a Democrat who also retired in 2014, as well as [[Parker Self]], the current chief judge of the court, Michael Craig, and Jeff Cox,<ref name=bio/> who in 2017 joined the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit.​

Robinson's judgeship came up for election for another six-year term on November 4, 2014. Whit Graves, who lost to Robinson in 1999 and to Mike Nerren in 2012, was expected to run again but instead announced that he would seek to unseat DA [[Schuyler Marvin]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], a race which he subsequently lost. In addition to Nerren, Robinson's court colleagues included [[Ford E. Stinson, Jr.]], a Democrat who also retired in 2014, as well as [[Parker Self]], the current chief judge of the court, Michael Craig, and Jeff Cox,<ref name=bio/> who in 2017 joined the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit.​

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