Andrew Kevin Ranazzi's professional life is centered in Toledo, a city in northwestern Ohio on the Maumee River and the county seat of Lucas County. The downtown business district, where the One SeaGate office tower stands, has long been a setting for the city's commercial life and its legal practice.
Ranazzi earned a Bachelor of Arts from Aquinas College. The institution grew out of a training school that Dominican sisters established in Traverse City, Michigan, in 1886 to prepare novices to teach in Catholic schools. It began operating as a four-year college in 1940, although the college's academic catalogue gives 1941 for that change, and it was renamed in honor of Thomas Aquinas, the thirteenth-century Dominican scholar.
Ranazzi later attended the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. The school traces its origins to 1912, when it was founded as the University of Detroit Law School, and it is among the oldest private law schools in Michigan. It is a Catholic institution that shares Jesuit and Mercy traditions of value-oriented legal education. The University of Detroit was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1877 and merged with Mercy College of Detroit in 1990 to form the University of Detroit Mercy.
Ranazzi was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1988 and to the Michigan bar in 1989. He practices in Toledo, where his professional profiles describe a general practice with work in criminal defense, employment and labor matters, and environmental law.
Ranazzi has been a partner associated with One SeaGate, the 32-story office tower in downtown Toledo along the Maumee River. The tower was built as the centerpiece of the SeaGate plan, a downtown revitalization program developed in the 1970s, and it was officially dedicated in June 1982. It served as the world headquarters of Owens-Illinois until 2006, and later became home to Fifth Third Bank's northwest Ohio regional offices.
Ranazzi has also acted as an attorney for the Lucas County Prosecutor's Office, the county's public prosecuting authority. In a federal case filed in 2025 in the Northern District of Ohio, Amato et al. v. Montgomery et al., he appeared as counsel for the City of Toledo.
