Robbin Shipp                   House District 58 Checks Payable To:      Committee to Elect Robbin Shipp        Campaign Address:       457 Flat Shoals Avenue, Suite 1B                                    Atlanta, GA 30316                        Campaign Phone:          404.522.1555 Email:                           shippforus@bellsouth.net  Website:                       www.shippforus.com

Robbin Shipp has always believed in being a community servant. While earning a B.A. in Communications at Shaw University, Robbin was involved in grassroots organizing on behalf of the Rev. Jesse Jackson as he sought the Democratic Presidential nomination. Robbin holds a Masters in Public Administration from Georgia College and State University and received her law degree from Mercer University.

Robbin has previously served on the Board of the Reynoldstown Civic Improvement League and is a volunteer for special projects. She also serves on the Cook Elementary School PTA. Robbin is an active member of Saint Philip AME Church where she participates in the Victorious Women For Christ Bible Study and helps coordinate attendance at an annual women’s retreat. In addition, Robbin serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Atlanta satellite campus of St. Francis University located in Joliet, Illinois and has previously lectured and taught continuing education courses to her legal colleagues in the area of health care law.

As a stakeholder in our public educational system, Robbin Shipp knows how important a good education is for our children. Robbin serves on the PTA at Cook Elementary. Robbin, an attorney, began her career as a private practitioner in Macon, Georgia. She fought to strengthen funding for programs that protect the rights of children to have legal representation through her work for the Macon Judicial Circuit Indigent Defense Program.

In 2001, Robbin was appointed to the staff of the Honorable Brenda Hill Cole. As Judge Cole’s staff attorney, Robbin often assisted the Court in its orders, mediated disputes between litigants and helped resolve cases pending trial. She went on to serve as an Assistant District Attorney for the Fulton County District Attorney’s office and quickly distinguished herself as a champion for the rights of victims of crime, particularly women and children. Several decades of public service have now led Robbin to the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital authority’s legal team as an Associate General Counsel for Grady Health System. Here she has championed the causes of the working poor and has saved tax payers millions of dollars by fighting waste, preventing fraud, and working to support health care policy that benefits all of us.

Robbin presently holds membership in the Georgia Bar, Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA) and Gate City Bar. She is a past member of the State Bar of Georgia Investigative Panel and presently serves on the State Bar’s Diversity subcommittee.

Robbin is the proud mother of 9-year-old Alexandria, a rising third grader at Cook Elementary School.
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The District: The district includes but is not limited to the following in-town neighborhoods: Reynoldstown’s Town, Cabbage Town, Grant Park, Chosewood, East Lake, East Atlanta, Kirkwood, Edgewood, Bouldercrest, Terrill Mill, Gresham Park and it encompasses Fulton and DeKalb counties.