Robin A. Smith is a member with the Portland, Oregon, law firm of Thede Culpepper Moore Munro & Silliman LLP. Robin focuses her practice primarily on estate planning, with an emphasis on advising tax-exempt organizations on all aspects of their operations. Before joining Thede Culpepper LLP Robin served as assistant director of the graduate program in taxation of the University of Washington School of Law, where she developed and taught courses on tax-exempt organizations and charitable giving law. Robin has also worked in the business department of Miller Nash LLP in Portland, Oregon, and tax practice groups of Stoel Rives LLP and Preston Gates & Ellis LLP in Seattle, Washington; and as an assistant to the general counsel of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Robin has been a volunteer for 17 years with the Oregon Country Fair, a tax-exempt arts organization in Eugene, Oregon. She is currently a member of the Oregon Country Fair management team, assisting the general manager on a year-round basis in all aspects of managing and operating the Oregon Country Fair. She has also served as conference co-director of the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, a four-day public interest law conference held in Eugene, Oregon.

Robin received her bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology, cum laude, from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She received her law degree and master’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Oregon, and her LL.M. in taxation at New York University Law School. At the University of Oregon, Robin received the D. Benson Tesdahl Legal Writing Award for Meritorious Brief and was awarded the Cressman Award for Excellence in Anthropological Writing. She is also a member of Pi Gamma Mu, an international honor society of social science.

Outside the office Robin enjoys spending time with her two dogs and three koi fish, singing, hiking with her two dogs, and fixing up old houses.