Elizabeth Ruth Tuttle and Jacob Eliezer Newman were married Oct. 27 at the Grafton Inn in Grafton, Vt. Jane Kelly, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, for whom the groom clerked from 2017 to 2018, officiated.
The bride and groom graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.
The bride, 29, is a staff attorney at the Bronx Defenders’ Family Defense Practice, where she represents low-income parents in abuse, neglect and termination of parental rights actions cases. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College. In 2011-12, she was a Fulbright research fellow, studying social movements in Rio de Janeiro.
She is a daughter of Sharlene F. Tuttle and Leigh D. Tuttle of Harvard, Mass. Her father is a clinical social worker in private practice in Bolton, Mass. Her mother is a sixth grade social studies teacher at the Bromfield School in Harvard.
The groom, 28, is a litigation associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, a law firm in Manhattan. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
He is a son of Susan Weiss Newman and David C. Newman of Manhattan. His father is a painter, whose work is on display at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum at the Hebrew Union College in Manhattan and at the Slifka Center at Yale. His mother is the head of the early childhood division at the Rodeph Sholom School in Manhattan.
The couple met at the People’s Republik, a bar near the Harvard campus, right before law school classes started.
