Jennifer Gillian Newstead
Jennifer Gillian Newstead is an American attorney who currently serves as the General Counsel at Facebook.
Prior to assuming her current position, she was the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State. Previously, she was a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Newstead clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States and for Judge Laurence Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She has served as general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, principal deputy Assistant Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy, and associate counsel to the United States President. She is credited with helping to draft the Patriot Act. In December 2017, during her confirmation she was questioned about her views on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
Newstead has also served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. In 2015, The American Lawyer recognized her for her work on transatlantic litigation.
In 2018, Jennifer G. Newstead represented the United States as Agent, Counsel, and Advocate in the case Alleged violations of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights before the International Court of Justice.
