David Newstone

Interim Executive Director and General Counsel

Defenders of Children

David Newstone is the Interim Executive Director and General Counsel of Defenders of Children, which has been providing free trauma-informed and healing-focused legal services to vulnerable children and their families throughout Arizona since 2007. Prior to joining Defenders of Children, Mr. Newstone practiced law in the public interest at Southern Arizona Legal Aid, Inc., and the William E. Morris Institute for Justice. Throughout his career, Mr. Newstone has successfully represented hundreds of low-income clients in counties and tribal nations across Arizona; contributed accessible legal content to numerous statewide programs and resources for self-represented litigants; and trained countless other attorneys, legal advocates, case managers, law enforcement officers, and others in crime victims’ rights and in family law, with a focus on child custody issues and orders of protection.