Katrina Robinson | |
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| Member of the Tennessee Senate from the 33rd district | |
| In office January 8, 2019 – February 2, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Reginald Tate |
| Succeeded by | London Lamar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 13, 1981 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Children | 2[1] |
| Relatives | Lorenzen Wright (brother-in-law)[2] |
| Education | University of Memphis (BBA) Union University (BSN) |
Katrina Robinson (born January 13, 1981) is an American former politician who served in the Tennessee Senate from the 33rd district from 2019 to 2022 as a member of the Democratic Party. She was the first sitting member of the state senate to be indicted since Operation Tennessee Waltz and later became the first person to ever be expelled from the state senate.[3]
Robinson was born in Memphis, Tennessee, educated at the University of Memphis and Union University, and founded a nursing college in 2015. She was elected to the state senate in the 2018 election after defeating incumbent Senator Reginald Tate in the Democratic primary.
Robinson was indicted on forty-eight charges relating to the embezzlement of $600,000 from federal grants to her nursing school in 2020. The charges against her were reduced to twenty before Judge Sheryl H. Lipman acquitted her on fifteen charges. She was found guilty on four counts of wire fraud in 2021.
- ^ "Q&A: Tennessee Senator Katrina Robinson". January 30, 2019. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
fbiwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Friedman, Melissa Brown and Adam (February 2, 2022). "Tennessee Senate expels Sen. Katrina Robinson from legislature, a first for the chamber". The Commercial Appeal. Archived from the original on February 3, 2022. Retrieved February 2, 2022.