Who appointed Sue Lewis Robinson?

President George H.W. Bush appointed Sue Lewis Robinson to the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in 1991.

Was Sue Lewis Robinson appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Sue Lewis Robinson was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Sue Lewis Robinson's confirmation vote?

Sue Lewis Robinson was confirmed by voice vote on November 15, 1991. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of Delaware / Appointed 1991 / Served to 2017

Sue Lewis Robinson

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

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 and confirmed by voice vote, Sue Lewis Robinson was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. She earned a law degree from University of Pennsylvania Law School (now Carey Law School) in 1978. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Appointed by: George H.W. Bush, 1991
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: University of Delaware 1974 · University of Pennsylvania Law School (now Carey Law School) 1978
Succeeded: Jane Richards Roth
Succeeded by: Colm Felix Connolly

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	District of Delaware succeeded Jane Richards Roth	G.H.W. Bush (R)	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

University of Delaware	B.A.	1974
University of Pennsylvania Law School (now Carey Law School)	J.D.	1978

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Robinson was assigned 5,993 district-court cases (1977–2017). Median time from filing to termination: 325 days across 5,993 closed cases.

Intellectual property25%

Bankruptcy22%

Prisoner & habeas18%

Civil rights8%

Personal-injury torts7%

Contract7%

Other14%

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.

On appeal

Of 221 of Robinson’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 189 were affirmed, 20 reversed or vacated, and 12 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Robinson authored 622 published opinions for the court (1992–2011). Most cited: Coalition to Save Our Children v. State Board of Education of Delaware (124 citations).

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

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1995	Coalition to Save Our Children v. State Board of Education of Delaware	901 F. Supp. 824	124
2009	Shahin v. Darling	606 F. Supp. 2d 525	56
2005	Liquidation Trust of Hechinger Investment Co. of Delaware, Inc. v. Fleet Retail Finance Group (In Re Hechinger Investment Co.)	327 B.R. 537	51
1992	Standard Chlorine of Delaware, Inc. v. Sinibaldi	821 F. Supp. 232	45
2010	Blair v. Infineon Technologies AG	720 F. Supp. 2d 462	40
2005	Ethypharm S.A. France v. Bentley Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	388 F. Supp. 2d 426	33
2009	Cephalon, Inc. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	629 F. Supp. 2d 338	32
1994	Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Buckhead America Corp. v. Reliance Capital Group, Inc. (In Re Buckhead America Corp.)	178 B.R. 956	30
2008	Shoemaker v. McConnell	556 F. Supp. 2d 351	29
2002	Zoren v. Genesis Energy, L.P.	195 F. Supp. 2d 598	29
2007	Traynor v. Liu	495 F. Supp. 2d 444	28
2007	Anderson v. Wachovia Mortgage Corp.	497 F. Supp. 2d 572	27
2007	Kloth v. Southern Christian University	494 F. Supp. 2d 273	26
2008	Accenture Global Services GmbH v. Guidewire Software Inc.	581 F. Supp. 2d 654	24
2008	L'Athene, Inc. v. EARTHSPRING LLC	570 F. Supp. 2d 588	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 622 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 Sue Lewis Robinson?: President George H.W. Bush appointed Sue Lewis Robinson to the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in 1991.
Was Sue Lewis Robinson appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Sue Lewis Robinson was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Sue Lewis Robinson's confirmation vote?: Sue Lewis Robinson was confirmed by voice vote on November 15, 1991. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Sue Lewis Robinson on?: Sue Lewis Robinson was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Sources

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