Edward Kenneth Newman was born on June 4,1951 and is an American former professional football player who was an offensive guard for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League from 1973 to 1984.
15 Facts About Ed Newman
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Ed Newman is a judge in Florida, and he has recently published his memoir, Warrior Judge: One Man's Journey from Gridiron to Gavel.
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Ed Newman was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Syosset, New York, and Woodbury, New York, and is Jewish.
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Ed Newman enrolled in 1969 at Duke University on an athletic scholarship.
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Ed Newman participated for Duke in two sports: twice earning All Conference honors in football as an offensive lineman and defensive lineman, and twice as a heavyweight wrestler winning the ACC heavyweight championship.
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Ed Newman was a Football All-American in 1971, and a Football All-ACC in 1971 and 1972.
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In 1973, Ed Newman graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology.
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Ed Newman did not play the 1985 season with his third serious knee injury, after having overcome thyroid cancer earlier in his career.
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Ed Newman was inducted into the Duke Athletic Hall of Fame, the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in the Wingate Institute, outside of Netanya, in Israel.
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Ed Newman was inducted, alongside a host of other former Miami Dolphins players, into the St Thomas University Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Ed Newman was inducted into the Dolphins Walk of Fame in 2014.
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In 1984, while playing pro football by day, Ed Newman enrolled in the night division of the University of Miami School of Law.
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In 1994, Ed Newman was elected County Court Judge in Miami, Florida, and began his first term in January 1995.
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Ed Newman retired in 2022, after serving for decades at the Richard E Gerstein Criminal Justice Building alongside his bailiff and former Dolphins teammate Tony Nathan.
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Ed Newman serves on the Miami Dolphins Alumni Board of Directors, the University of Miami School of Law alumni board, and the Board of Transition, Inc.