Gladys Ashe Robinson[1] (born November 17, 1949)[2] is a health services executive and serves as a Democratic State Senator for the 28th district (parts of Guilford County, North Carolina) in the North Carolina General Assembly.

Robinson graduated from Bennett College and received her Masters and PhD from North Carolina A&T.

[1][3] She is a member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and is a former trustee of Bennett College.

[4] In 2010, she filed for the Democratic nomination to run for the 28th state Senate district that was occupied at the time by Katie G. Dorsett.

[6] She went on to face Republican Trudy Wade and fellow Democrat Bruce Davis (who ran as an unaffiliated candidate to protest Robinson's nomination).