MELANIE SAMSON TUTTLE founded Tuttle Law, PLLC, to practice business and employment law and to counsel regarding corporate governance. Tuttle has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Elon University School of Law, teaching securities regulation and business planning. She has been named to The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.) for corporate law and securities/capital markets law. She was also the Law Clerk to the Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit, 1983-1985. Before law school, Tuttle was a mechanical engineer with Procter & Gamble, where she worked on consumer paper products, and General Electric, where she was involved in the design of control systems for jet engines. Tuttle studied at the University of Michigan, B.S.E.(M.E.), cum laude, and the University of Cincinnati, J.D. Other civic activities include Women’s Professional Forum Foundation, Inc. (past President), Philharmonia of Greensboro (past President), and Guilford Battleground Company, member of the Board of Directors and a Vice President. She is also a cellist and enjoys classical music.