He was born in Houston, Texas where he currently resides. Mr. Melton received his Juris Doctor in 2001 from The College of William and Mary, School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1997, Mr. Melton graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a Bachelor of Arts. He is a licensed member in good standing of the State Bar of Texas, and a member of the American Bar Association and Houston Bar Association. Mr. Melton is is a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, where he sits on the Amicus Committee. The Winter 2006 edition of the PIABA Bar Journal published Mr. Melton's article, Giants and Pygmies: The Fallacies of the Sophisticated Investor Doctrine.