An investigation by WBTV revealed that her husband did not disclose her role as a board member of American Leadership Academy North Carolina and two of its affiliated charter schools in a 2023 ethics filing.
[2] She later founded Balanced Nutrition, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides healthy meals for children enrolled in licensed daycare facilities in North Carolina, which she owns and operates.
[9] In 2022, a news story was published revealing that Robinson, who expresses anti-abortion political views, obtained an abortion in 1989.
[10] The Robinsons were criticized by members of the North Carolina Democratic Party and by reproductive rights activists for supporting bans on abortions after obtaining one themselves.
[4] Following an investigation by WBTV, it was revealed that Lieutenant Governor Robinson did not disclose his wife's role, as required by law, in his 2023 ethics filing despite recusing himself from voting in the North Carolina General Assembly's proposed legislation to implement a new Charter School Review Board on which he would sit.
[4] Robinson's husband, as Lieutenant Governor, was presiding over the North Carolina State Senate when the proposal passed, and was appointed to the review board.
[19][20] The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services revealed that Robinson owed $132,000 following a compliance review of her non-profit and sent a notice for "serious deficiency" to the company.
[27] In September 2003, Robinson was sued by the Tarheel Triad Girl Scouts of the USA in Guilford County Small Claims Court over money owed after she gave them a bad check for $2,956.03.