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# Melanie Martinez

Role: Executive Assistant

Melanie is an Executive Assistant in Stone Hilton’s Houston office. With a professional background spanning both the dental and legal fields, she brings resourcefulness, adaptability, and a growth mindset to her role, always looking for opportunities to learn something new and better support those around her.

## Houston Native, Legal Support Professional

Before entering the legal field, Melanie worked as a hybrid dental assistant, handling both clinical and front-office responsibilities. Her experience balancing patient care with administrative duties helped develop the adaptability, organization, and people skills she would later bring to the legal field. Melanie began her legal career as a receptionist at a boutique litigation firm, where she developed meaningful professional relationships and discovered an interest in learning more about the legal field.

Melanie later joined a major national firm, where she was given the opportunity to transition into a legal secretary role supporting attorneys in construction litigation. After several years as a legal secretary, she joined Stone Hilton as an Executive Assistant, where she continues to expand her knowledge and find new ways to support the firm’s attorneys and staff. Melanie takes pride in her growth mindset and approaches unfamiliar challenges with the belief that if she doesn’t know how to do something, she can learn. She enjoys being resourceful, finding solutions, and continually expanding the ways she can contribute to her team.

## Outside the Office

Melanie enjoys spending time with her two children and their two cats and two dogs. A firm believer in personal growth, she enjoys staying active, reading, and finding ways to make everyday life better through thoughtful routines and systems. Whether she is tackling a weekend project, organizing something at home, or simply learning something new, she enjoys finding small ways to make life a little more efficient and intentional.

## Experience

### Legal Secretary

Major National Law Firm

### Office Support Professional

Major National Law Firm

### Receptionist

Prominent Houston Boutique Firm

### Receptionist & Dental Assistant

Multiple Dental Practices

### North Shore Senior High School

## Education

### Houston Community College

## Additional Credentials

### Additional Credentials

- Notary Public, State of Texas