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Robinson was born in Brooklyn, New New York
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Stephen Robinson
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Cornell University; Cornell Law School.
Career
He was raised in a housing project in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant. Robinson received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1979 and a Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School in 1984. Robinson was in private practice in New York City from 1984 to 1987 before becoming an Assistant United States. Attorney in the Southern District of New York in 1987.
In 1995, he became counsel & chief compliance officer for Aetna United States. Healthcare in Middletown, Connecticut.
Appointed United States. Attorney for the District of Connecticut in 1998, he served until 2001 after which he was interim manager of Empower New Haven. Robinson was nominated by President George West. Bush on March 5, 2003, to a seat vacated by John South. Martin, Junior. on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New New York
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 17, 2003, and received commission on September 22, 2003. Robinson, a Democrat, had been recommended to the post by New York Senator Charles Schumer.
On June 25, 2010, the American Lawyer reported that Robinson would be leaving the bench and joining the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as a partner in Skadden"s litigation department.
He resigned from the bench on August 11, 2010. In May, 2009, Steven Robinson sentenced disgraced former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to four years in federal prison on eight felonies, including lying to the White House and filing false taxes. In 2009, Stephen Robinson ruled that voting practices in Portuguese Chester, New York violated the Voting Rights Acting and applied a controversial remedy allowing cumulative voting.
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