Background
Ellis, Melvin C. was born on August 12, 1963 in West Point, Mississippi, United States.
Ellis, Melvin C. was born on August 12, 1963 in West Point, Mississippi, United States.
Georgia Institute of Technology (B.Ch.E., 1985). University of Mississippi (Juris Doctor, 1990).
Worked at Ellis, Ellis & Fisher, P.A. (Tupelo, Mississippi) specializing in General Practice, Personal Injury, Civil Rights, Employment Law, Negligence and Criminal Defense. Admitted to the bar, 1991, Mississippi, United States. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi.
1992, United States.
Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit. Member: Lee County and American Bar Associations. The Mississippi Bar; Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association.
Ellis, Ellis & Fisher is a Professional Association which was incorporated and founded in 1992 by Melvin C. Ellis, III and Shelly Nichols Ellis, a husband and wife team of attorneys who met and married in law school.
They were joined in 1994 by former classmate Luther C. (Luke) Fisher, IV, who practices primarily in the field of employment law and civil rights litigation. The firm has been engaged in a general practice serving all of North Mississippi, with a desire to eventually concentrate their practice in the areas of personal injury, catastrophic injury and death, employment law, civil rights violations, class actions, negligence, sports law and criminal defense.
Member: Lee County and American Bar Associations. The Mississippi Bar; Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association.