Spottswood William Robinson III
| Spottswood William Robinson III | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
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In office October 20, 1966 – September 1, 1989 |
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| Nominated by | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Preceded by | George Thomas Washington |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Raymond Randolph |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
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In office July 2, 1964 – November 8, 1966 |
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| Nominated by | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Preceded by | James Ward Morris |
| Succeeded by | Gerhard Gesell |
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July 26, 1916 Richmond, Virginia |
| Died | October 11, 1998 (aged 82) Richmond, Virginia |
| Cause of death | heart failure |
| Nationality | US |
| Spouse(s) | Marian Wilkerson |
| Children | Nina Robinson Govan Spottswood W. Robinson IV |
| Parents | Spottswood William Robinson II |
| Residence | Richmond, Virginia |
| Education |
Virginia Union University Howard University School of Law (1939) |
| Known for | civil rights litigation |
Spottswood William Robinson III (July 26, 1916 – October 11, 1998) was an American educator, civil rights attorney, and federal judge.
In the early 1950s, Robinson and his law-partner Oliver Hill litigated several civil rights lawsuits in Virginia. In 1951, Robinson and Hill took up the cause of the African-American students at the segregated R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia who had walked out of their dilapidated school. The subsequent lawsuit, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, was consolidated with four other cases decided under Brown v. Board of Education by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954. In his arguments before the Court, Robinson made the first argument on behalf of the plaintiffs.
In 1966, Robinson was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the first African-American so appointed and, later, became the first African-American to serve as chief judge of the District of Columbia Circuit.
Robinson was born in Richmond, Virginia on 26 July 1916. The son of Spottswood William Robinson III [1893-1954] a lawyer and Inez Irene Clements [1893-1994] a Home maker He received his undergraduate degree from Virginia Union University. In 1939, he received his law degree from Howard University, graduating first in his class and achieving the highest scholastic average in the history of the Howard University Law School.
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