Ms. Robinson received her Juris Doctor degree from the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University. Ms. Robinson has served as president of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, DC, President of the Civil Justice Foundation and was the first African-American president of the Public Justice Foundation. She is a past member of the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice (AAJ). Ms. Robinson is also a past president of the DC Women's Bar Association Foundation. In 2015 the Women’s Caucus of the TLA-DC honored Ms. Robinson by giving her name to its annual award and awarding Ms. Robinson the Sandra H. Robinson Women’s Caucus Award. In 2014 Ms. Robinson received the Ollie May Cooper Award from the Washington Bar Association.