Gene Rankin | Board

Gene is a practicing lawyer who retired 2006 as Director of Wisconsin Supreme Court’s Board of Bar Examiners. He has served on the Madison Music Makers Board, as President of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Board and has worked with: Dane County Housing Authority as Vice Chair, on the board of Dane county Housing Development Corp, on the City of Madison Zoning Board of Appeals, on Madison Trust for Historic Preservation Board, volunteers on WORT’s Two For The Blues, and helped found the Wisconsin Bar’s Environmental Law Section. Gene plays guitar, mandolin, and blues bass. Gene also races and cruises sailboats in all Great Lakes, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and five of the seven seas. He was a 1976 Olympic sailing finalist and presently volunteers as a sailing instructor at UW Hoofers Sailing Club. He has been an early music enthusiast since 1962, and shares audiophilia with Robert Lopez, the Board’s Treasurer.