John Sherman Robinson (December 17, 1880 – October 9, 1951) was an American track and field athlete, lawyer, judge, and chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Following graduation, he spent four years as a local teacher, a time during which both his mother and father passed away.

Partners included George Levant Harroun, a graduate of Northwestern University, who focused on banking law, C. E. H. Maloy, an active litigator, and Roger L. Shidler, a 1924 graduate of the University of Washington Law School.

[8] On June 22, 1916, Robinson married Edith J. Lind (September 30, 1891 – October 2, 1978) in Tacoma, Washington.

[12][13] In October 1951, Judge Robinson died four months after retiring from the Court, and is buried in Lake Forest Park Cemetery, Seattle, Washington.