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==