District of Columbia / Appointed 1966 / Served to 2000

Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr.

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 and confirmed by voice vote, Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr. was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He earned a law degree from Cornell Law School in 1947. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived
1922–2000
Appointed by
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
Confirmed
by voice vote
Education
Cornell 1943 · Cornell Law School 1947
Succeeded by
Ricardo M. Urbina

Federal judicial service

YearCourtAppointed byVote
1966District of ColumbiaL.B. Johnson (D)Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Robinson was assigned 3,242 district-court cases (1974–2000). Median time from filing to termination: 298 days across 3,242 closed cases.

Contract71%
Social Security16%
Personal-injury torts5%
Civil rights3%
Prisoner & habeas3%
Other federal statutes1%
Other1%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

In our data, Robinson authored 1 published opinion for the court (2000).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

YearCaseCitationCited
2000Sigma-Tau Industrie Framaceutiche Riunite, S.P.A. v. Lonza, Ltd.106 F. Supp. 2d 80

Showing the 1 most-cited of 1 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

Who appointed Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr.?
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr. to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 1966.
Was Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr. appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr. was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr.'s confirmation vote?
Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr. was confirmed by voice vote on October 20, 1966. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr. on?
Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr. was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Sources

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33 years on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).