Theodore R. Newman Jr. (July 5, 1934 – January 6, 2023) was an American judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Newman was born on July 5, 1934, in Birmingham, Alanama, and raised in Tuskegee, where his father was a Methodist minister and his mother was a schoolteacher.
After law school he spent three years as a judge advocate in the United States Air Force stationed in France.
He then entered private practice as an associate at Houston, Bryant & Gardner, a prominent law firm founded by Charles Hamilton Houston and Wendell P. Gardner Sr., where his colleagues included future federal judge William B.
[4] At the time, there were fewer than a dozen black judges serving on state appeals courts.