As a young man, Melvin D. Oden-Orr was excellent at dancing the butterfly. His specialty, however, is the robot: “All my friends love when I do the robot,” he says.
Mr. Oden-Orr is the principal attorney with Oden-Orr Law. Prior to founding Oden-Orr Law, he served as corporate counsel with TriMet and the Portland Development Commission. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1993 from UCLA and is a 1996 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was a recipient of the esteemed Rickert Award.
Mr. Oden-Orr has also served as an adjunct professor at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College. He currently serves on the PCRI Board of Directors.