Michael Daly Hawkins (born February 12, 1945) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Born in Augusta, Maine, Hawkins received his Bachelor of Arts degree and Juris Doctor from Arizona State University and Arizona State University College of Law in 1967 and 1970, respectively, and his Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1998.

[1] Hawkins began his career in 1970 as a Special Courts Martial Military Judge in the United States Marine Corps.

From 1980 until 1994 he was a partner in the Phoenix, Arizona law firm of Daughton Hawkins Brockelman Guinan & Patterson.

Hawkins was nominated by President Bill Clinton on July 13, 1994, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated by Judge Thomas Tang.