Melody Stewart earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, a law degree from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, and her Ph.D. from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.    Melody has over 30 years of combined administrative, legal, and academic experience.  She has been an administrator for a healthcare management company, a music teacher, a civil defense litigator, and a law school administrator and professor.  She is currently an appellate court judge.