About Annette
Annette Newman built a career that runs from courtrooms and federal service to human resources and private practice. She earned a J.D. from Stetson University College of Law in 2009 after completing an MBA in human resource management at Wayland Baptist University in 2001 and a B.S. in business administration in 1999. Earlier studies included applied management and accounting degrees from Central Texas College and Monterey Peninsula College in the early 1990s.
Her professional life began in federal service. She worked for the U.S. Marshals Service and then as a courtroom deputy and administrative assistant for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. She served in the U.S. Army, reaching the rank of Non-Commissioned Officer Sergeant (E-5). Those early roles gave her routine exposure to court procedures and administrative law.
Newman moved into the private sector in the 1990s, taking on district manager and field consultant duties for 7-Eleven, Inc. She later returned to human resources as a generalist for the same company in 2003. Those positions combined operational oversight with personnel and compliance responsibilities.
After law school she shifted into legal work that often intersected with employment issues. Her résumé lists service as a federal Equal Employment Opportunity investigator beginning in 2009. She founded and served as managing lawyer of the Law Office of Annette Newman, LLC in 2011. In 2018 she worked as a senior legal editor for an independent contracting role with Thomson Reuters. In 2019 she earned certification from the Florida Supreme Court as a circuit civil mediator and has conducted mediations under the Law Office of Annette Newman, PLLC.
Her certifications include federal EEO investigator credentials and circuit civil mediation certification from the Florida Supreme Court. Professionally she maintains membership in the Florida Bar and participates in organizations that reflect her employment and human resources background, including the Florida National Employment Lawyers Association, the National Bar Association, and the National Employment Lawyers Association, among others.
As an attorney, Newman combines administrative and military experience, HR training and courtroom familiarity. She has handled EEO investigations, represented clients in employment matters, edited legal content and facilitated mediations. The throughline in her career is an emphasis on dispute resolution and workplace law.
She currently practices from her firm and handles employment law matters, mediations and EEO-related investigations.
