The chairman of The National Judicial College Board of Trustees Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III, Member-in-Charge of the Florence, Kentucky, office of Frost Brown Todd LLC has been named Chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Standing Committee on the American Judicial System.
Robinson has been an active member of the ABA for more than 30 years and has served in numerous leadership positions, including as 135th President (2011-12), Treasurer (2005-08), 10 years on the ABA Board of Governors, more than 30 years in the ABA house of Delegates, and nine years as a Kentucky State Delegate.
Robinson is a Life Member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference; a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers, and a Life Leadership Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA); the American Law Institute; International Association of Defense Counsel; Product Liability Advisory Council; and a past Commissioner on the Uniform Law Commission. Robinson served as the 50th President of the Kentucky Bar Association (1985-86); President of the Kentucky Bar Foundation (1988-89); Founding Chair (1986-88) of the Kentucky Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts (IOLTA) Fund; and President of the National Caucus of State Bar Associations (1995-96). He currently also serves on the Boards of the American Inns of Court Foundation and the American Bar Foundation.
The Standing Committee of the American Judicial System was created in 2014 to protect the fair and impartial judiciary within the American democracy. Robinson will begin his one-year term as chair at the closing of the ABA’s annual meeting in San Francisco, August 9.

“The hardest part of being a judge,” wrote Jackson, Wyoming, Circuit Court Judge Curt A. Haws, “is le...

This piece originally appeared in the May 5, 2023, issue of The Judges Journal. We will be cour...

April’s Question of the Month asked NJC alumni if they believe candidates in judicial elections should be...

The March Question of the Month asked judges how confident they were in their knowledge of hate-crime laws ...

The latest Question of the Month* asked NJC alumni if they believe state courts should be able to rule on t...