Florence Zacks Melton (November 6, 1911 – February 8, 2007) was an American inventor known for innovating the foam-soled and washable slipper.

She married her first husband, Aaron Zacks, when she was 19, and subsequently moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he worked as a merchandiser for a department store.

In the 1970s, she became the first woman to serve on the board of the Huntington National Bank and was a founding member of CAJE (the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education).

Melton realized that the women’s fashion of a military style led to wearing double-breasted suits with padded shoulder.

Melton came up with Shoulda-Shams, a cotton-batting shoulder pad with an elastic tab that could be snapped to a bra strap - ending the need for sewing.

Together, they created the "Florence Melton Adult Mini-School," a two-year, non-denominational program which operates in over 70 North American communities, Australia and South Africa.

[5] In the mid 1980s, Melton initiated the "Discovery" program, which attempts to connect youths to their ancestry, community, different denominations in Judaism, and to Israel.