On Tuesday, April 10, The Hon. Jon O. Newman, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (the federal appellate court for Connecticut, New York, and Vermont), will serve as the David T. Lewis Jurist-in-Residence at the College of Law. Newman is a graduate of Princeton University (1953) and Yale Law School (1956). He has been awarded honorary degrees by Brooklyn Law School, New York Law School, the University of Bridgeport, and the University of Hartford.
Students, faculty and staff at the College of Law are invited to attend the College’s Jurist-in-Residence events. At 9:30 a.m. Newman will address the College in a Special Student Forum lecture in the Sutherland Moot Courtroom. At 12:15 p.m., he will preside alongside The Hon. Dee V. Benson of the United States District Court for the District of Utah and The Hon. Carolyn B. McHugh, Presiding Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals, in the 2012 Traynor Moot Court Competition Finals.