Melissa Minnich Coleman (October 9, 1917 – April 1, 2014), (born Mary Melissa Minnich) was an architect specializing in school buildings.
She was born in Landisville, Pennsylvania.
She graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1939 with a bachelor's degree in architectural engineering, after being awarded the 1938 Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (BAID) medal.
She worked in Wilmington, Delaware from 1939 until 1941 for architect John F.
Mullins, and met her husband Clifford LeRoy Coleman there.