Bernard Newman (judge)

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Bernard Newman (1907/1908 - 22 April 1999)^[1] was a judge on the United States Court of International Trade.

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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.^[2]

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.^[2]

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.^[2]

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.^[2]

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