A graduate of Montana State University, Newman earned a Master’s in nurse midwifery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and her Family Nurse Practitioner certificate from the State University of New York-Stony Brook. A retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, who served in Washington, Hawaii, Kentucky and Alaska, Newman spent 13 years working at Bozeman OB-GYN before joining Bozeman Health Women’s Specialists Clinic in 2015.