BRANDON ROBINSON

Brandon A. Robinson is the President of the 16th Judicial District Bar and Durham County Bar Association, and a former member of the North Carolina Bar Association Board of Governors and North Carolina Bar Foundation.  A Durham-based attorney with a focus in corporate law, international business, estate planning and business litigation, Robinson holds a B.A. in European history and philosophy, and M.A., in American history--both from Western Carolina University--and a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law.  Robinson previously clerked for former NC Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr at the NC Institute for Constitutional Law, and worked for President Tom Ross at the UNC System Office, before commencing his private practice.  Robinson served as Board President of the Conservation Trust for North Carolina in 2022 and 2023, and currently sits on the Western Carolina University Foundation Board.  In addition to law practice and service on various nonprofit boards, Robinson is also an independent historian with research interests in the American Presidency and Reconstruction, and recently contributed a chapter, "Andrew Johnson's North Carolina Legacy: How a Southern Capital Remembers its Native Son," to the volume, Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture (University of Virginia Press, 2023).