She helps lead the firm, and her name runs through its federal dockets
Melissa Nyman is the Deputy Managing Partner of Nyman Turkish PC, and across more than a decade at the California bar her record carries not a single mark of discipline. The federal dockets fill in the rest: counsel of record in Michigan and California, from the accessible-absentee-ballot case for blind Michigan voters to the accessible-transit case at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Source Federal court dockets
Business first, then the law
Melissa earned a B.S. in Business Administration at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, then her J.D. at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. the law school on her official State Bar of California record. Source State Bar of California
She was admitted to the California bar on December 5, 2013: license #293207, under her full name, Melissa Markos Nyman. The public record lists her license as active and shows no disciplinary or administrative history. Source State Bar of California
What she does at Nyman Turkish
Melissa practices Social Security Disability law and works on Nyman Turkish's disability-rights litigation. As Deputy Managing Partner, she helps lead the firm from its Roseville, California office. Source State Bar of California
Nyman Turkish PC has practiced Social Security Disability law nationwide since 1980, with four offices in California, Florida, and Michigan. Melissa helps lead that practice as Deputy Managing Partner and co-owner. The firm's history includes Binno v. LSAC, the case whose settlement changed the LSAT for every test-taker in the country. Source CNN · LSAC
In the federal courts
The docket sheets fill in the practice. She appeared for the plaintiffs in Harris v. Wayne County Airport Authority, the Detroit Metro accessible-transit case, two weeks after it was filed. Source Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
In all, the record shows her as counsel in at least eight federal cases in the Eastern District of Michigan: including Powell v. Benson, the accessible absentee-ballot case for blind Michigan voters: plus Social Security appeals in the Eastern District of California and briefing in two argued Sixth Circuit appeals. Source Federal court dockets
Beyond the firm
Nyman Turkish's biography of Melissa lists her as a co-founder and board member of the Alliance for America's Promise, the Social Security disability rights group whose advocacy against a proposed cut to disability benefits ProPublica reported in 2025. Source Nyman Turkish PC · ProPublica
She is a member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives and the American Bar Association. Source Nyman Turkish PC
Credentials
Melissa's license, degrees, and memberships are public. Each entry below links to its source.
- Bar license
- State Bar of California · #293207 Active. Admitted December 5, 2013. Source State Bar of California
- Bar admission
- Supreme Court of the United States Admitted February 21, 2017, on motion of Jason Marc Turkish: recorded in the Court's own Journal, October Term 2016, p. 512. Source Supreme Court Journal
- Federal courts
- E.D. Mich. · E.D. Cal. · Sixth Circuit briefs Counsel of record in at least eight Eastern District of Michigan cases and in Social Security appeals in the Eastern District of California; on the briefs in two argued Sixth Circuit appeals. Source Federal court dockets
- Discipline
- None on the official record The State Bar record's disciplinary and administrative history is empty. Source State Bar of California
- Education
- J.D.: Thomas Jefferson School of Law Thomas Jefferson is the law school on her official bar record. B.S., Business Administration, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (per her biography on the Nyman Turkish website). Source State Bar of California record
- Memberships
- NOSSCR · ABA · AFAP National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives; American Bar Association; co-founder and board member, Alliance for America's Promise (per her biography on the Nyman Turkish website). Source Nyman Turkish PC
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