Local attorney to chair Miller & Martin

Malone has managed Nashville office since last fall

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Melvin Malone

Nashville attorney Melvin Malone has been named chairman of Miller & Martin, which has about 200 attorneys on staff in Nashville, Chattanooga and Atlanta. In succeeding Howard Levine, Malone becomes the first African American to chair the firm.

Malone, 46, has managed Miller & Martin's Nashville office for a year, having taken over from longtime local leader Robert Holland. Before joining the firm in 2002, he was among other things a director of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority and deputy legal counsel to former Gov. Don Sundquist.

Miller & Martin has in recent years focused heavily on diversifying its staff. Part of its strategic plan now calls for it to become the most diverse regional firm in the Southeast by 2013.

“This appointment is one more indication of our firm’s genuine commitment to achieving a diverse workplace and building internal leadership from the pool of talented attorneys of our firm, regardless of ethnicity,” said Joseph R. Delgado, the firm’s diversity partner.