Bernard Newman (judge)

Bernard Newman (1907/1908 - 22 April 1999) [ [http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/may99ttb/milestones.html The Third Branch] Judicial Milestones, April 1999] was a judge on the United States Court of International Trade.

Biography

Bernard Newman was born in New York, at the same address as Louis Lefkowitz, the later New York State Attorney General, who would become his friend. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E5D91E3AF936A15757C0A96F958260 The New York Times] obituary of judge Bernard Newman, 25 April 1999]

Newman studied law at New York University. He married fellow student Kathryn Bereano and after entering the bar in 1930, started the law partnership Newman & Newman. He was the secretary of Justice Samuel H. Hofstadter at the New York Court of Appeals from 1942 to 1948, a time when he befriended Carmine DeSapio, the later Secretary of State of New York.

In 1958, Bernard Newman became the New York County Republican chairman. After the party structure in Manhattan was rearranged in 1961, Newman became a judge at the family court in 1962, and he was appointed later to the State Supreme Court.

In 1968, Newman was appointed to the United States Customs Court, which was later renamed to the United States Court of International Trade. He received Senior status in 1983.

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