Michael Saltman was born October 09, 1942 and raised in Flint, Michigan. Saltman earned his bachelor's degree from Michigan State University in 1964 and his Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School in 1967. From 1968 to 1975, he was an attorney in London, England and Geneva, Switzerland, and Director of International Operations at Shareholders Capital Corporation in Munich, Bavaria.
Saltman has also served on several community committees and Boards in the past, including: the Council for a Better Nevada, the Nevada Development Authority, the Clark County Design Review Committee, the Las Vegas Springs Preserve Foundation, and the McCarran Airport Arts Advisory Committee. Saltman was nominated to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Foundation Board in 1986, and served on several of the university’s committees. He and his wife, Sonja, co-founded the Saltman Center for Dispute Resolution at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV in 2003.