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==Background==

==Background==

 

Robinson graduated from [[Louisiana State University]] and the LSU Law Center, both in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]. From 1986 until 1999, he was the city judge in Springhill in northern Webster Parish. He formerly served as the president of the Louisiana Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. From 1969 to 1975, Robinson was a member of the Louisiana Army National Guard, in which he achieved the rank of Specialist 5th Class.<ref name=bio>Judge John M. Robinson, 26th Judicial District Court, April 26, 2014; no longer on line.</ref>

Robinson graduated from [[Louisiana State University]] and the LSU Law Center, both in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]. From 1986 until 1999, he was the city judge in Springhill in northern Webster Parish. He formerly served as the president of the Louisiana Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. From 1969 to 1975, Robinson was a member of the Louisiana Army National Guard, in which he achieved the rank of Specialist 5th Class.<ref name=bio>Judge John M. Robinson, 26th Judicial District Court, April 26, 2014; no longer on line.</ref>

==Judicial career==

==Judicial career==

 

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]].  

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]].  

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 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's judgeship came up for election for another six-year term in 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 in 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.​

 

Attorney [[Charles Jacobs]], a Republican from Springhill, who once worked in Robinson's law office, ran unopposed in the election to succeed Robinson in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on November 4, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2014/08/20/desoto-da-minden-mayor-candidates-qualify/14331543/|title=Final day of qualifying in DeSoto, Webster|author=Vickie Welborn|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=August 22, 2014}}</ref>​

Attorney [[Charles Jacobs]], a Republican from Springhill, who once worked in Robinson's law office, ran unopposed in the election to succeed Robinson in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on November 4, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2014/08/20/desoto-da-minden-mayor-candidates-qualify/14331543/|title=Final day of qualifying in DeSoto, Webster|author=Vickie Welborn|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=August 22, 2014}}</ref>​

==References==

==References==

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