M a r t y C r a i g R o b e r t s o n was born in Jackson, Mississippi on January 8, 1974 and graduated as the salutatorian from Wingfield High School in the Jackson Public School District in 1992. In 1993, he accepted a baseball scholarship to Mississippi College, where he was named to the All-South Region and All-Gulf South Conference baseball teams. Craig left the Jackson area in 1994 to attend Mississippi State University, where he played baseball under Ron Polk for two seasons. In his senior year, he concentrated his efforts exclusively on academics and obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics from MSU in 1996. That same year, Craig was accepted to the University of Mississippi School of Law, and was awarded the Mississippi Association of County Board Attorney’s Scholarship. He participated in the school’s summer abroad program in the summer of 1997, studying international and comparative law in Cambridge, England. His course work at Ole Miss was completed a semester early and he has been licensed to practice law in all Mississippi state and federal courts and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals since April 1999. Craig is also licensed in the United States Tax Court, and he received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in May 1999. 
M. Craig Robertson is a Board Certified Family Law Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and a member of The Mississippi Bar and its Family Law Section and Alternate Dispute Resolution Section, and the Hinds, Madison, Rankin and Lauderdale County Bar Associations. He is the founder a small litigation firm that grew from a solo practice to an office of four attorneys in two cities with five support staff in less than one year and he merged his practice with the law firm of Robinson, Biggs, Ingram, Solop & Farris in February of 2008. Recently, Craig left the firm to once again establish a small, boutique family law firm. 
His mentor is the famous L.C. James of the James & O'Brien Family Law Group, and his practice is concentrated in domestic relations, and he has appeared as a speaker at various CLE events throughout his career on a variety of family law topics. He authored an article for the Mississippi Lawyer, a magazine for lawyers, called "Complicated Compound Bereavement- Murder/Suicide…Divorce", and he has been appointed in Rankin and Madison counties to be a guardian ad litem for children in domestic relations situations. Craig also participated on the Child Advocacy Committee in conjunction with the Jackson Young Lawyers Association, which helped push a bill through the legislature that implemented tougher laws against child abuse, and he volunteers each year as a judge for the Mississippi High School Moot Court Competition.
Craig lives with his wife, Rachel, who he adores and who has a family full of attorneys in Arkansas- including two former federal court judges. They will celebrate their seven-year anniversary in April of 2009. Their home is in Madison County, Mississippi, and they are members of Pinelake Church where they often volunteer in the pre-school. The couple has two children, Mollie Ann, born April 26, 2004 and Emma Clark, born October 4, 2005. Craig enjoys being with his family, sports, photography, art, food, gardening and music.
