Judge Kevin C. Newsom is a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He sits in Birmingham, Alabama.
Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Newsom was the head of the appellate practice group at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and, before that, the Solicitor General of Alabama. As a practicing lawyer, Judge Newsom argued four cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, and nearly 40 more in the United States Courts of Appeals and state supreme and appellate courts.
Judge Newsom graduated summa cum laude from Samford University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an articles editor on the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, Judge Newsom clerked for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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A Conversation with Judge Kevin Newsom
California-UCLA Student Chapter
UCLA School of Law385 Charles E Young Dr E
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Breyer Revistied: Why We Choose Formalism, Not Pragmatism
Vanderbilt Student Chapter
Vanderbilt Law School131 21st Ave S
Nashville , TN 37203
Breyer Reviewed: Why We Choose Formalism, Not Pragmatism
Chicago Student Chapter
The University of Chicago Law School1111 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Criminal Law & Procedure: Evaluating the Progressive Prosecutor Experiment
2024 National Lawyers Convention
The Washington Hilton1919 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20009
A Review of Justice Breyer's Reading the Constitution with Judge Kevin Newsom
NYU Student Chapter
New York University School of Law40 Washington Square Park S
New York, NY 10012
Criminal Law & Procedure: Evaluating the Progressive Prosecutor Experiment
2024 National Lawyers Convention
It has been almost ten years since the advent of the ‘progressive prosecutor,’ local elected...
Criminal Law & Procedure: Evaluating the Progressive Prosecutor Experiment
2024 National Lawyers Convention
It has been almost ten years since the advent of the ‘progressive prosecutor,’ local elected...
Showcase Panel I: Roundtable: Originalism on the Ground
2023 National Lawyers Convention
Trying to sort out what originalism means in practice requires integrating insights from all levels...
Showcase Panel I: Roundtable: Originalism on the Ground
2023 National Lawyers Convention
Trying to sort out what originalism means in practice requires integrating insights from all levels...
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard: Affirmative Action Goes to Court
2022 National Lawyers Convention
The panel is sponsored by our Civil Rights practice group and will focus on the...