Melissa Budden Kelleigh
Associate
Melissa Kelleigh has been a member of the Oregon State Bar since 2000. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, receiving a B.A. in Linguistics with honors in 1995 and graduated with a J.D. cum laude from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College in 2000. While in law school, she served as Executive Editor for the Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law (now the Lewis & Clark Law Review). Ms. Kelleigh began her legal career as a judicial clerk for Judge David Brewer at the Oregon Court of Appeals. Ms. Kelleigh has practiced family law for over six years, first as an associate at Kennedy, Watts, Arellano & Ricks, L.L.P., then in her own solo law practice focusing on family law.
Areas of Practice
- Appeals
- Child Custody
- Child Support
- Divorce
- Domestic Partnerships and Dissolution
- Enforcement of Judgments
- Parenting Time
- Post Divorce Enforcement
- Post Divorce Modification
- Separation
- Spousal Support
- Registered Domestic Partnerships
Bar Admissions
- Oregon, 2000
- U.S. District Court District of Oregon, 2003
Education
- Lewis and Clark College Northwestern School of Law, Portland, Oregon
- J.D. - 2000
- Law Review: Lewis & Clark Law, Executive Editor
- University of Chicago
- B.A.
- Honors: With Honors in 1995
- Major: Linguistics
Past Employment Positions
- Judge David Brewer, Oregon Court of Appeals, Judicial Clerk
- Kennedy, Watts, Arellano & Ricks, L.L.P., Associate
