David Christopher Newell (born June 9, 1971) is an American judge, who serves on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

A resident of Houston, Newell was elected to the court in 2014 to succeed the retiring Place 9 Judge Cathy Cochran.

Newell the son of a Navy father, was born in the Bethesda, Maryland, but grew up in Sugar Land, Texas.

[1] Newell graduated from the University of Houston in 1993, and from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin in 1997.

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