Robinson received an associate degree from Amarillo College in 1946.[2] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics[2] from the University of Texas at Austin in 1948 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Texas School of Law in 1950.[3] She met her husband A. J. Robinson at the university and the couple married in 1949.[4] She was in private practice with her husband in Amarillo as Robinson & Robinson from 1950 to 1955.[3][4] She was a judge of the County Court for Potter County, Texas, from 1955 to 1958. She was a judge of the 108th District Court of Texas in Amarillo from 1961 to 1973.[3] During this time she spoke frequently about women's rights and helped to change a law that prohibited married women from entering into binding contracts.[4]
Robinson was a justice of the Court of Civil Appeals for the Seventh Supreme Judicial District of Texas from 1973 to 1979.[3] She was later an associate of the same court and was chief justice from 1977 to 1979.[3][4]
Robinson had one son and two daughters; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.[4] Robinson was a church elder at Westminster Presbyterian Church, where she and her husband also taught Sunday school.[4] Robinson died on January 26, 2019, at the age of 92.[6] Her husband, A. J. Robinson, predeceased her. She was to be buried at the Llano Cemetery.[4]
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