Jennifer Gillian Newstead
| Jennifer Gillian Newstead | |
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| Legal Adviser to the United States Department of State Nominee |
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| Assumed office Pending Senate confirmation |
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| President | Donald Trump |
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| Education | Harvard University Yale Law School |
Jennifer Gillian Newstead is an American attorney. Currently a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, she has been nominated by President Donald Trump to become Legal Adviser to the United States Department of State. A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Newstead clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States and for Judge Laurence Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She has served as general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, principal deputy Assistant Attorney Genera at the United States Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy, and associate counsel to the United States President. Newstead has also served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law.[1] In 2015, The American Lawyer recognized her for her work on transatlantic litigation.[2]
