Andrea Fischer Newman is a distinguished professional with a multifaceted career spanning law, government, and corporate leadership. Since 2021, Ms. Newman has served as a Director for StandardAero, one of the world’s leading independent maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) providers. She also serves on the Boards of two private equity backed companies: Prime Flight Aviation, a Capitol Meridian and Sterling Group backed Company providing aviation services to passenger, cargo, general aviation and airports, which she joined in November 2017; and Sequitur Energy Resources LLC, an Acon Company and independent oil producer with assets primarily in the Southern Midland Basin, in West Texas, which she joined in 2018. Ms. Newman served as Senior Vice President – Government Affairs for Delta Air Lines from 2008-2017, with responsibility for International, Regulatory, Federal, State, and Local government affairs. From 2001-2008, she was Senior Vice President – Government Affairs for Northwest Airlines and helped oversee the regulatory approvals required for the Delta-Northwest merger in 2008. Ms. Newman joined Northwest in 1995, also serving as Vice President for State & Local Government Affairs and as an Associate General Counsel. Prior to her airline career, she was a Senior Partner at Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone, a Detroit, Michigan law firm, from 1992-1994, and Senior Counsel from 1988-1992. Ms. Newman’s public service includes serving as a member of the Federal Service Impasses Panel (Federal Labor Relations Authority) first appointed by President George W. Bush from 2002-2009 and reappointed by President Donald Trump in 2017, serving until 2021. Ms. Newman was an elected member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan from 1995-2019. Ms. Newman received her J.D. from the George Washington University National Law Center in 1983 and was a 1979 honors graduate of the University of Michigan.