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Since October 2002, Reginald L. Robinson has served as President & CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, which governs the state's six universities, and coordinates those institutions, along with the state's 19 community colleges, 10 technical colleges and schools, and municipal university. For the four years prior to his appointment as CEO, he served jointly as Chief of Staff to University of Kansas (KU) Chancellor Robert Hemenway and as a Visiting Associate Professor in the KU School of Law.

Mr. Robinson, who also served as an Associate Professor of Law at KU from 1988-1993, returned to the University of Kansas in 1998 after five years with the United States Department of Justice. In 1999, President Clinton appointed him to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships, where he served for two years as the Commission's youngest member.

He joined the Justice Department in 1993 as a White House Fellow, and in that capacity served as a Special Assistant to Attorney General Janet Reno. At the end of his Fellowship, Mr. Robinson was appointed to a number of senior executive posts. As Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) he led the Attorney General's effort to coordinate the Department's involvement in a number of community-based public safety initiatives including, Project PACT (Pulling America's Communities Together), Operation Weed and Seed, and the Clinton Administration's Empowerment Zone Initiative. His work also focused on juvenile justice and youth violence matters. In addition, he led the Department's effort to implement the 1994 Crime Act's Drug Courts Program, and was honored with the National Association of Drug Court Professionals' Leadership Award for his work in this area.

After two years at OJP, Mr. Robinson was appointed Deputy Associate Attorney General of the United States, where he was a key advisor to the Associate Attorney General (DOJ's third-ranking official) on environmental, civil rights, and justice programs matters. He also played a central role in the Department's work on a proposed victims' rights amendment to the United States Constitution. His work on that issue led to his appointment as Acting Director of the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), the federal government's lead agency for addressing issues facing the nation's crime victims, where
he continued to work on the victims' rights amendment, and led OVC's continuing efforts to put crime victims at the center of the justice seeking process. He served in that post until his return to KU.

Mr. Robinson earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Kansas, where he was Student Body Vice President, President of the Kansas Union Board of Directors, and Editor in Chief of the Kansas Law Review. He is a recipient of the Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award, the Class of 1913 Award, and the Samuel Mellinger Award for Scholarship, Leadership and Service in the law school. Between college and law school, he served four years as a field artillery officer in the United States Army; he was honorably discharged at the rank of Captain. Upon graduation from law school, he was a law clerk to Judge Deanell R. Tacha, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He then joined the KU law faculty. As a faculty member, he was the first two-time winner of the Frederick Moreau Award for Student Counseling and Advising.

He has served on the National Board of Directors for the KU Alumni Association, and on the board of directors for the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Douglas County CASA, the Ballard Community Center, and Cottonwood, Inc. Kansas Governor Bill Graves appointed him to both the Kansas Children's Cabinet and the Kansas Advisory Group on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He also serves on the boards for the Vera Institute of Justice, the Rand Corporation, the National Crime Prevention Council, and the National Organization for Victims Assistance.

He and his wife, Jane, a registered nurse, have two daughters, Clare and Paige.

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