A HOMICIDE investigation led to the conviction of one suspect in the deaths of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh.
Clifton Newman was appointed to preside over Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial.
Who is Patricia Newman? Judge Clifton Newman’s wife
Clifton Newman met his future wife Patricia while attending Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
Clifton and Patricia started a family after graduating from college.
They eventually moved from Ohio to Columbia, South Carolina.
Their choice was based on the long distances their children would have to travel to attend integrated schools.
Patricia and Judge Newman have four children.
They have two daughters, Jocelyn and Kellee, as well as two sons, Corwyn and Brian.
While two of their children became engineers and mathematicians, Clifton and Patricia’s other two children chose to follow in their father’s footsteps.
Brian, his son, was Columbia’s youngest councilman.
Jocelyn Newman, like Clifton, is a circuit court judge.
Judge Newman and Patricia suffered a great loss on January 3, 2023, when Brian died as a result of a blood clot in his heart, which caused a cardiac arrest.
Who is Judge Clifton Newman?
Clifton Newman, born November 7, 1951, is an American attorney and at-large circuit court judge from Kingstree, South Carolina.
After graduating from law school, he established his first firm, Belcher & Newman, in Ohio.
The South Carolina General Assembly elected Newman to the aforementioned position on May 24, 2000.
He was re-elected to the position three times more by acclamation.
Alex Murdaugh, Nathaniel Rowland, Mikal Mahdi, and Michael Slager were all tried before Judge Newman.
On March 2, 2023, he returned a guilty verdict for Alex Murdaugh.