The HistoryMakers video oral history with Stephen Robinson.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (14 video files (8 hr., 8 min., 25 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11313260
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Stephen Robinson
Stephen Robinson
Other authors / contributors:Robinson, Stephen C. (Stephen Craig), 1957- interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Feldman, Isaac, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Videographer, Isaac Feldman.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2014 July 17.
Recorded New York, New York 2014 September 12.
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Summary:Lawyer and federal district court judge Stephen C. Robinson was born on January 25, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.A. degree in government from Cornell University in 1981, and his J.D. degree from Cornell Law School in 1984. Robinson became assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1987, and was asked to serve as general counsel and special assistant to the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1993. President William Clinton appointed Robinson as U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut in 1998; he was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. In 2003, he was appointed as a federal district court judge to the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York by President George W. Bush. He resigned this position in 2010 to become a litigation partner at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP.