Owen B. Melton, Jr., Chair
Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, Inc.

Owen B. (Bud) Melton, Jr. retired on Dec. 31, 2003, as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of First Indiana Bank, N.A., a national bank, and as President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of First Indiana Corporation, (NASD – “FINB”), having served in those positions since October 1983. Under Melton’s leadership, the First Indiana Bank grew its asset base from $400 million to nearly $2.2 billion, with more than $208 million in capital.

Melton is active in the Indianapolis community and currently in his second term as a Governor-appointed member of the Board of Trustees of the State of Indiana’s Indiana Finance Authority. He also is a member of the board of directors and Audit Committee member of Star Financial Bank; a board member and President of the Indianapolis Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Citizens’ Academy; a member of the Board of Visitors of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business-Indianapolis; and a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Challenge Foundation Academy, Inc. He is a past President and two-term Program Chairman of the Economic Club of Indiana and currently serves on its Board of Directors and as its Treasurer; currently serves as a Director Emeritus of the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Indianapolis and is a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Indianapolis Political Action Committee. He also currently serves on the coaching staff of the Carmel High School Girls Soccer Team as their statistician and is an active member of Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis.

A graduate of Indiana University (Indianapolis campus), Melton received a bachelor’s of science degree in finance. He completed the graduate program of the Graduate School of Savings and Loan at Indiana University, Class of 1982. He served in the active duty of the U.S. Air Force in various bases around the world, honorably discharged in 1970.

His awards and distinctions include being awarded the Maynard K. Hine Medal in 2006 from IUPUI, the highest honor bestowed to an alumnus by the Alumni Association for the IUPUI campus. Bart Peterson, Mayor of the City of Indianapolis, honored him as a Distinguished Citizen in 2003. Melton was a 2002 inductee into the IUPUI Athletics Hall of Fame, and he was honored as a Sagamore of the Wabash by Governor Frank O’Bannon in 2000. In 1979, he became a Charter Member of the Senior Executive Service of the United States by President Jimmy Carter.