David W. Newman, Esq.

David W. Newman is an Assistant U.S. Trustee with the Office of the U.S. Trustee in Salt Lake City and a regional criminal coordinator with the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees’ Office of Criminal Enforcement. He practiced law in California from 1992 until 2005, primarily with Best Best & Krieger, LLP’s Litigation Department and Bankruptcy Practice Group. Mr. Newman served as a chapter 7 trustee, as a member of the board of directors of the California Bankruptcy Forum, and as president of the Inland Empire Bankruptcy Forum. In 2005, he left private practice to serve as a trial attorney in the U.S. Trustee’s Tulsa, Okla., Office. Mr. Newman was appointed as the Assistant U.S. Trustee for the District of Idaho in 2008 and for the District of Montana in 2017, and ceased serving in those Districts in 2020. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting bankruptcy crimes for 15 years. Mr. Newman is admitted to practice before the Tenth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the Federal Courts of Utah, Idaho, California, and the Northern and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma. He is a member of the State Bars of Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma, Texas and California. Mr. Newman received his J.D. in 1992 from Brigham Young University and was admitted into the Order of Barristers