Mark Melton is a corporate tax attorney and the founder of the Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center (DEAC), the only organization in the country to achieve full courtroom saturation in eviction defense. Since launching DEAC during the COVID-19 pandemic, he and his team have defended tens of thousands of Dallas County tenants and built a model now being replicated in Houston.

Melton is a partner at Holland & Knight, where he co-leads the firm’s tax practice. In 2022 received the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award, the bar’s highest honor for volunteer legal service. His work has been featured in Texas Monthly, D Magazine, on CBS News, and across local and national media. He lives in Dallas with his wife Lauren and DEACon, an 80-pound rescue dog who supervises most of his afternoons.

Injustice of the Peace is his first book.