Andrea Fischer Newman
Regent Newman, a Republican from Ann Arbor, received an A.B. degree from the University of Michigan in 1979 and a J.D. degree from the George Washington University National Law Center in 1983. She is currently senior vice president-government affairs at Northwest Airlines, with responsibility for the company’s international, federal, state and local government affairs. Regent Newman serves on the Federal Service Impasses Panel, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, and the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, and is a vice president of the Detroit Economic Club. She has been active in the Republican Party on the state and national levels, and served as vice chair of the George W. Bush for President campaign and co-chair of the Bush for President Finance Committee in Michigan in the 2000 presidential election. She was elected to the Board of Regents in 1994 and re-elected in 2002. |
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