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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On Being Predictably Unpredictable
Stanford Student Chapter
Stanford Law School559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305
The Path to Clerkships and the Bench
UCLA Student Chapter
UCLA School of Law385 Charles E Young Dr E
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Predictable Unpredictability: A Conversation with Judge Kevin Newsom
Harvard Student Chapter
Harvard Law SchoolWCC
Cambridge, MA 02138
On Being Predictably Unpredictable
Yale Student Chapter
Yale Law School127 Wall St.
New Haven, CT 06510
On Being Predictably Unpredictable
Chicago Student Chapter
The University of Chicago Law School1111 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Originalism: Perspectives from the Bench
2021 National Lawyers Convention
The 2021 National Lawyers Convention took place November 11-13, 2021 at the Mayflower Hotel in...
Originalism: Perspectives from the Bench
2021 National Lawyers Convention
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Showcase Panel III: Does Originalism Protect Unenumerated Rights?
2019 National Lawyers Convention
On November 16, 2019, the Federalist Society hosted the third showcase panel of the 2019...
Showcase Panel III: Does Originalism Protect Unenumerated Rights?
2019 National Lawyers Convention
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John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
2018 National Lawyers Convention
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