Effie Robinson

Effie Robinson (January 7, 1920 – May 23, 2003) was a social worker and public housing director. She was the first African American graduate from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare.

Biography Effie Robinson was born in Healdsburg, California, January 7, 1920. A 1943 magna cum laude graduate of San Francisco State University, Robinson was the first African American graduate from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare.

Art Agnos worked as her assistant when she was appointed, in 1964 by Mayor John F. Shelley to be the San Francisco Housing Authority Director of Human Relations and Tenant Services.

Awards and honors Robinson was awarded the Daniel Koshland Jr. Award in Social Welfare in 1974 by the National Association of Social Workers.