Edwin Albert Robson

Edwin Albert Robson (April 16, 1905 – October 21, 1986) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Education and career

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Robson received a Bachelor of Laws from the DePaul University College of Law in 1928 and entered private practice in Chicago. He became a Judge of the Superior Court of Cook County in 1945. In 1949 he became Chief Justice of that court. He became a Judge of the Illinois Appellate Court in 1951, a role he served in until his appointment to the federal bench.

Federal judicial service

Robson received a recess appointment from President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 29, 1958, to a seat vacated by Judge Winfred George Knoch on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was formally nominated to the same seat by President Eisenhower on January 17, 1959, confirmed on April 29, 1959, and received his commission on April 30, 1959. He was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1966 to 1969, and a member of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation from 1968 to 1979. He served as Chief Judge from 1970 to 1975, and assumed senior status on April 16, 1975. Robson served in that capacity until his death on October 21, 1986.

Influences

Robson's law-time law clerk was Anne K. Golden, then known by her maiden name Anne K. Eisenberg. Anne married Irving R. Golden, an attorney who was an assistant Cook County State's Attorney and then an assistant Illinois State's Attorney. One of their twin sons was the M.I.T. and Harvard-educated attorney and jazz musician Bruce P. Golden, the other twin being astronomer, professor, actor, musician, comic, cartoonist, and writer Les Golden, and their daughter being ballerina Marla Rae Balaban. One of her brothers, also a twin, was Irving Eisenberg. Anne had twin uncles on her mother's side, twin brothers, and twin sons.

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