Tina Lundy Melo is an attorney with FizerBeck, practicing taxation, estate planning, probate, and general corporate law. Ms. Melo is licensed to practice law in the state of Texas and is a member of the Texas State Bar Association (former Chairman of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the Tax Section) and the Houston Bar Association (Tax Section).

During her more than twenty years of legal practice, Tina has represented a variety of charitable, tax-exempt, and governmental organizations, including many health care clients. She is a frequent lecturer on topics affecting such exempt organizations, including the incorporation process, employee compensation and fiduciary liability, and has published an article addressing the tax consequences of outreach testing by nonprofit, tax-exempt hospitals. Tina also represents individual clients in estate planning, with a particular focus on charitable giving. Tina is active in various community organizations, and has served as an officer and director of Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts, and as a director of the Junior League of Houston, Inc. Tina is currently a member of the Planned Giving Council Advisory Committee of Rice University, Houston, Texas and the Planned Giving Council of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Tina received her J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1981, and graduated with high honors from the University of Tennessee in 1977 with a joint degree in political science and journalism. Tina practiced with the Houston law firms of Vinson & Elkins and Wood, Lucksinger & Epstein prior to joining FizerBeck in 1991.