Melissa M. Boyd, Esq.
Board Member
Ms. Boyd is a founding member of Boyd & Early Family Law, LLC, concentrating in domestic relations. She is a member of the bars in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Additionally, Ms. Boyd is a member of the Montgomery, Philadelphia, Bucks and American Bar Associations. Ms. Boyd is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Ms. Boyd is the Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Family Law Section (FLS). Ms. Boyd is the current chair of the Montgomery County Family Judiciary Advisory Board. Ms. Boyd is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Montgomery Bar Association (MBA) and served on the Executive Committee to the President of the MBA. She has also served as a member of the MBA Judiciary Committee, Nominating Committee, and Long-Range Planning Committee. Ms. Boyd is a past chair of the MBA Family Law Section. She served as the vice chair of the Community Outreach Committee of the MBA and received the 2015 MBA President’s Award and 2017 MBA Committee of the Year Award for her work on that committee. Ms. Boyd is a member of the MBA Women in Law Committee as well as the MBA Diversity Committee. She volunteers her services to Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania and is trained as a volunteer lawyer and board member for the Montgomery Child Advocacy Project (MCAP). Ms. Boyd served for two terms on the Council for the Family Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association from 2007 to 2010 and 2011 to 2014. In 2018, she received the PBA Special Achievement Award for her work as the chair of the PBA FLS Membership Committee. She has been named a "Super Lawyer" by Philadelphia Magazine in 2015-present, and since 2019, has been named as 100 Top Lawyers in Pennsylvania, 100 Top Lawyers in Pennsylvania and 50 Top Female Lawyers in Pennsylvania. She was named "Rising Star" by the magazine in 2008, and 2010–2014. Ms. Boyd has been named a Top Lawyer in Main Line Today and has been named as one of the Ten Leaders for Matrimonial Divorce Law in Greater Philadelphia since 2020. She enjoyed being named as one of the Ten Leaders Age 45 and Under for the same publication from 2010 to 2020. Ms. Boyd also has been named to the Suburban Life Magazine Five-Star Attorney for Divorce and Family Law. In addition, Ms. Boyd was named Best Lawyers in America © Philadelphia’s Lawyer of the Year for Family Law in 2020 and continues to be recognized by that publication for Family Law (since 2016), Family Law Arbitration (since 2018) and Family Law Mediation (since 2022). Ms. Boyd has also been named to the 2011 Lawyers on the Fast Track in the Legal Intelligencer. Ms. Boyd boasts an AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating by Martindale Hubbel ®. Ms. Boyd also clerked for two years for the Honorable Stuart R. Berger in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in Maryland. Additionally, she served as the interim director of School House Legal Services for Advocates for Children and Youth in Baltimore, Maryland, a program committed to providing legal services for children who had been expelled, suspended, or, for other reasons, lost instruction time from school. Ms. Boyd received her B.A., cum laude, from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Baltimore School of Law.