Michael L. Rankin (born August 7, 1946)[1] is a senior judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
President Ronald Reagan nominated Rankin on November 13, 1985, to a 15-year term as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by Nicholas S. Nunzio.
On December 9, 1985, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on his nomination.
[4] In 2000, and again in 2015, the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure recommended that he be reinstated for another fifteen year term as judge.
[6] Rankin is married to fellow D.C. Superior Court judge Zinora Mitchell-Rankin and they have four children.