Biographical Information
Born in Charlotte, N.C., in 1948, Lee Robinson grew up in the Carolinas. After attending Hollins College, where she studied with writer Richard Dillard, she graduated from Boston University in 1970 with a B.A. in Philosophy. She earned her J.D. from Antioch School of Law in 1975 and served as a public defender and legal aid lawyer in South Carolina for 8 years before entering private practice in Charleston.
In 1995 Lee was elected the first female president of the Charleston Bar Association and in 1998 she received the Bar Association’s Gedney M. Howe Award for public service. She was instrumental in bringing mediation and arbitration into the court system in South Carolina. The American Bar Association Journal awarded her its Ross Essay Award in 1996 for an article on the use of mediation in child custody cases.
Lee moved to Texas in 1998, where she teaches part-time at the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (http://texashumanities.org). Lee has taught constitutional law and legal ethics at The Citadel and in the Honors College the University of Texas at San Antonio, and writing workshops for Gemini Ink. She and her husband, Jerald Winakur, a physician and writer, live on a 102-acre ranch in the Texas Hill Country. She has two grown children--Luke Robinson, who works in London and Sally Robinson, who works for the New York Civil Liberties Union in Manhattan—and two step-daughters, Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol and Emily Winakur.
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