Nan Aron

Nan Aron (born January 4, 1948) is an American lawyer and the founder and president emeritus of Alliance for Justice (AFJ), a liberal judicial advocacy group in the United States. Staunchly progressive, Aron has been a noted opponent of conservative judicial nominees in the United States. She repeatedly called for former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to be more aggressive in nominating progressives to the bench, and during George W. Bush's presidency, urged the Democrat-controlled Senate to consider Bush's nominees closely. She is considered a key player in confirmation hearings for judicial nominees, Prior to founding Alliance for Justice, Aron worked as a staff attorney for the ACLU's National Prison Project. Aron went on to serve as a trial attorney for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and began investigating judicial nominees during Ronald Reagan's presidency.

Aron authored Liberty and Justice for All: Public Interest Law in the 1980s and Beyond in 1989, which the Harvard Law Review said was "ure to evoke a new pledge of allegiance to public interest law", as well as Justice in the Making—A Citizen's Guide in 1993 with Alliance for Justice.

Aron referenced overcoming the dual challenges of being a woman and a Jew in the State Department in 2004.

Personal life Aron was born in a Jewish household in 1948 in New York City. She is married to psychiatrist Bernard Arons; they have three children.