Christina Melton Crain

Last modified on: 03-30-2025 13:24:26

Board Member
(The University of Texas System Board of Regents)

Term Ends: 02-01-2031

General Information

Profession: Attorney Home Town: Dallas


Personal Information

Christina Melton Crain of Dallas is an attorney and the founder, president, and CEO of Unlocking Doors. She is a member of the American Correctional Association and the Texas Corrections Association. She is past president of the Trinity River Authority of Texas Board of Directors, former public member of the Texas Public Transportation Advisory Council, former chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, and former member of the UT Southwestern Medical Center Institutional Review Board. She is the past director of the State Bar of Texas, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court Rules Committee, and former president of the Dallas Bar Association, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, and the Dallas Women Lawyers Association. She is a life member of UT Austin College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council, member of the Dallas County Criminal Justice Advisory Board Executive Committee, former board member of the Center for Missing/Exploited Children-Texas Region, and former trustee of the Dallas Bar Foundation. Crain received a Bachelor of Arts in Government from UT Austin and a Juris Doctor from Oklahoma City University School of Law.
Reappointed 3/28/25.