Brian Roderick Banks (born November 15, 1976) is an American politician who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017.

[4] Banks defeated Scott Benson by 96 votes to win the 2012 Democratic primary for the 1st district of the Michigan House of Representatives.

[12] During the November 8 general election, Banks received 66 percent of the vote over engineer William Broman, his Republican challenger.

[16] In August 2017, Banks filed candidate paperwork to run for the Michigan State Senate 2nd District seat in anticipation of a resignation by Bert Johnson, who has been federally indicted for corruption.

[18] In 2022 Banks ran in the August Democratic primary to represent District 1 on the Wayne County Commission, listing his address as a post office box in Grosse Pointe.

[26] Banks filed a suit to have the prosecutor's office removed from the case, his lawyer claiming that the charges were "politically motivated" in nature.