David Newman
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security, U.S. Department of Justice
David Newman serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice (DOJ). From January 2021-October 2022, he served as the Associate Deputy Attorney General for National Security Affairs. Prior to holding that position, David was a partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he was Co-Chair of the Firm’s Global Risk and Crisis Management Practice. David previously served as Associate White House Counsel and Special Assistant to the President at the White House (2015-2017), in various posts on the staff of the National Security Council (2013-2015), and as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security (2011-2013). He is a graduate of Columbia College and Yale Law School and a former law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.