Constance Berry Newman

Constance Ernestine Berry Newman (born on July 8, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 2004 to April 2005. Constance Berry Newman is the daughter of a social worker and nurse. Her father was a physician. She received her high school diploma from Tuskegee Institute High School, located on the campus of the Tuskegee University, where she was an honor roll student and active in the Government Club, in 1951. She got her B.S. Political Science, Bates College, Maine in 1956 and her J.D. in law from University of Minnesota Law School in 1959. Newman worked as a clerk typist, personnel assistant, and personnel manager with the United States Department of the Interior from...