LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas native Brandon Robinson, J.D., MHA, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Office of General Counsel as its managing associate general counsel and chief legal counsel for UAMS Health.

Robinson returns to Arkansas from BJC Health System in St. Louis, where he served as the director of legal services for physician strategy and senior corporate counsel. Prior to that, he was an associate general counsel for UAMS from 2015 to 2019, handling business transactions, contracts and utility regulations.

“Brandon’s years of experience in complex health care transactions, health care governance, hospital law and medical ethics and more make him uniquely qualified to assume this position,” said C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., interim chancellor of UAMS. “We are delighted he has returned to Arkansas and UAMS.”

Robinson served in the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office as an assistant attorney general from 2010 to 2015, serving as in-house counsel for 20 state agencies, boards and commissions. Before that, he was an associate with Bridges, Young, Matthews & Drake PLC in Pine Bluff.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Bowen School of Law, graduating with high honors. He received a Master of Health Administration degree from the Walker School of Business at Webster University in Webster Groves, Missouri.