Board of Trustees

Zinora M. Mitchell-Rankin - Trustee

Zinora M. Mitchell-Rankin was born in the District of Columbia and was educated at Spelman College in Atlanta Georgia, where she graduated summa cum laude and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1976, and at George Washington University's National Law Center in Washington, D.C. where she received her Juris Doctorate degree in May 1979. 

Judge Mitchell-Rankin accepted an appointment with the Department of Justice Honors Program and was assigned to the Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch as a trial attorney.  In 1982, she was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney of the District of Columbia where she served in both the United States District Court and in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.  In addition, she served as the Administrative Assistant United States Attorney from March 1987 until May 1988. Judge Mitchell-Rankin was then appointed to serve as the Executive Assistant for Management and remained in that position until her nomination to the Superior Court.

Since 1990, Judge Mitchell-Rankin has served in several capacities - as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia; in the Civil, Family and Criminal Divisions of the Court; as the Presiding Judge of the Family Division; as Deputy Presiding Judge of the Family Division; as the Superior Court Drug Court Judge; and in the Misdemeanor Branch of the Criminal Division.  Judge Mitchell-Rankin is currently assigned to the Domestic Relations Branch of the Family Court.

Judge Zinora Mitchell-Rankin and her husband, the Honorable Judge Michael L. Rankin, are the proud parents of three sons, John Michael, Everett Mitchell and Michael Joseph and one daughter, Lee Elliott Rankin.

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