Marietta Sebree "Marti" Robinson (born December 26, 1951)[1] is an American lawyer and former political candidate in Michigan and California.

From 1973 to 1975 she was a data processing marketing representative for the IBM Corporation in Flint, Michigan and Glendale, California.

She held several parti-time jobs while a student, including keypuncher, Winkleman's sales representative, nurses' aide, and waitress for Beachbum Bert's in Redondo Beach, California.

In the summer of 1977 she was a research assistant to Michael Murphy, in-house counsel of the American International Group, Inc. (AIG) in Hamilton, Bermuda.

In early 2013, she was nominated by President Obama as commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and approved by the Senate in June 2013.

[5] She was married for 28 years to James K. Robinson, who was U.S. Attorney in Detroit under President Carter, Dean of Wayne State University Law School from 1993-1998, Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice under President Clinton, and a partner at Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn in Detroit prior to 1993 and at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLC from 2001 until his death of cancer in 2010.