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Robinson graduated from Louisiana State University and the Louisiana State University Law Center, both in Baton Rouge.
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John Marion Robinson
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He resides in Bossier City. From 1986 until 1999, he was the city judge in Springhill in northern Webster Parish. A former practicing attorney, he once served as the president of the Louisiana Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.
Then a Democrat, Robinson handily defeated the Republican Whitley Robert "Whit" Graves (born October 1954) of Bossier City, 17,749 (608 percent) to 11,442 (392 percent).
Robinson since switched his registration to Independent. The couple had two sons, Eric and Kyle Robinson.
Judge Robinson subsequently married the former Beth Conrad Langston (born October 1962), a Bossier City attorney. Robinson"s judgeship comes up for election again 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 District Attorney Schuyler Marvin of Minden.
Attorney Charles Jacobs, a Republican from Springhill who once worked in Robinson"s Springhill law office, was unopposed in the election to succeed Robinson in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on November 4, 2014.
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From 1969 to 1975, Robinson was a member of the Louisiana Army National Guard, in which he achieved the rank of Specialist 5th Class. Robinson won a special election to the 26th district court on October 23, 1999 to fill the seat vacated by Harmon Drew, Junior., who was instead elected in 1998 to a ten-year term on the Louisiana Circuit Court of Appeal for the Second District, based in Shreveport.
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