Lieutenant Colonel Courtney Newman is currently assigned as a Legislative Liaison with the U.S. Army’s Office of the Chief, Legislative Liaison. LTC Newman received her bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2004 and her juris doctorate from Tulane Law School in 2008. She received a masters of law degree (LL.M.), with dean’s list recognition, in military law from The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in 2018 and an LL.M. with distinction in national security law from Georgetown University Law Center in 2022.

LTC Newman’s major assignments include Deputy Staff Judge Advocate (general counsel) for the Joint Special Operations Command; legal advisor to a deployed special operations Joint Task Force, where her portfolio included lethal and non-lethal counterterrorism operations, cyberspace operations, and special technical operations; Professor and Professional Communications Program Director for The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School; Chief of National Security Law for the 82d Airborne Division; deputy legal advisor for a deployed special operations Joint Task Force, where her portfolio included rule of law operations and detention operations; and other operational deployments.

LTC Newman is admitted to practice before the courts of the State of Colorado. She teaches in her personal capacity and the views she teaches do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Defense or the Department of the Army.