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 as 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, Dane county Housing Development Corp, City of Madison Zoning Board of Appeals, Madison Trust for Historic Preservation Board, and WORT, and he founded 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 Mediterranean, and the Pacific. He was an 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.