Jane Ellen "Bonnie" Newman (born June 2, 1945)[1] from North Hampton, New Hampshire[2] is an American administrator and business executive.

[4] In 1981, she moved to Washington D.C. to serve as chief of staff to Judd Gregg when he was in the United States House of Representatives.

[8] Newman served as interim Dean of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire from 1998 to 1999.

[10] On February 3, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that he would nominate Gregg, then a Republican Senator representing New Hampshire, as the Secretary of Commerce.

[7] However, on February 12, 2009, citing "irresolvable conflicts" with the Obama administration on issues surrounding the United States census and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Gregg announced he was withdrawing his nomination for the position of Commerce Secretary and remaining in the Senate.

[14] Newman was one of the first Republicans to publicly endorse John Lynch, a Democrat, in his successful 2004 challenge of then-Republican Governor Craig Benson.