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{{Short description|American lawyer (born 1948)}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Nan Aron
| image              = Nan Aron - 2019.jpg
| birth_date         = {{birth year and age|1948}}
| birth_place        = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date         =
| death_place        =
| education          = [[Oberlin College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Case Western Reserve University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
| occupation         = Lawyer
}}
'''Nan Aron''' (born 1948) is an American lawyer<ref>{{cite news|last1=Yeager|first1=Holly|title=Liberal campaigner ready for next big trial|url=https://www.ft.com/content/75cf87d6-e27b-11d9-84c5-00000e2511c8|accessdate=26 May 2015|work=Financial Times|date=June 22, 2005}}</ref> and the founder and president of [[Alliance for Justice]] (AFJ), a [[Liberalism in the United States|liberal]] judicial advocacy group in the United States.<ref name="Savage"/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Mauro|first1=Tony|title=Supreme Court 'Litmus Test' Emerges in White House Race|url=http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202727263323/Supreme-Court-Litmus-Test-Emerges-in-White-House-Race?slreturn=20150426130405|accessdate=26 May 2015|work=National Law Journal|date=May 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Bravin|first1=Jess|title=Supreme Court Rules Felons May Sell, Transfer 'Clean' Guns|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-rules-felons-may-sell-transfer-clean-guns-1431963833|accessdate=26 May 2015|work=Wall Street Journal|date=May 18, 2015}}</ref> Staunchly [[Liberalism in the United States|progressive]], Aron has been a noted opponent of conservative judicial nominees in the United States.<ref name=wapo>{{cite news|last1=Davis|first1=Marcia|title=Her Idea of Justice: Absolutely Not Alito|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801966.html|accessdate=26 May 2015|newspaper=Washington Post|date=November 9, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Kirkpatrick|first1=David|title=Liberal Coalition Is Making Plans to Take Fight Beyond Abortion|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/politics/politicsspecial1/14alito.html|accessdate=26 May 2015|work=New York Times|date=November 14, 2005}}</ref> She repeatedly called for former Presidents [[Bill Clinton]]<ref name="Savage">{{cite news |last1=Savage |first1=David G. |title=Court Nominee Warfare Opens |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/188609286/?terms=%22Nan%2BAron%22 |accessdate=4 July 2019 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=6 July 2001 |page=A5}}</ref> and [[Barack Obama]] to be more aggressive in nominating progressives to the bench,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Shear|first1=Michael|title=Obama Plans 3 Nominations for Key Court|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/us/politics/obama-plans-to-nominate-3-judges-for-key-court.html|accessdate=26 May 2015|work=New York Times|date=May 27, 2013}}</ref> and during [[George W. Bush]]'s presidency, urged the Democrat-controlled Senate to consider Bush's nominees closely.<ref name="Savage"/><ref name="McKelvey">{{cite journal |last1=McKelvey |first1=Tara |title=Nan in action |journal=American Prospect |date=August 2005 |volume=16 |issue=8 |pages=6–7 |issn=1049-7285}}</ref> She is considered a key player in confirmation hearings for judicial nominees,<ref name="Savage"/> and, in 2005, was called "the [[Madame Defarge]] of liberal court watchers" in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''.<ref name=wapo/><ref name="Milk"/>
==Career==
Aron received her B.A. in sociology and Chinese from [[Oberlin College]] and her J.D. from [[Case Western Reserve University School of Law]].<ref name="Milk"/><ref name="Boney">{{cite news |last1=Boney |first1=Ret |title=Ally for justice |url=https://pj.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2004/12/20/72999/ |accessdate=6 July 2019 |work=Philanthropy Journal News |publisher=NC State University |date=20 December 2004}}</ref> Prior to founding [[Alliance for Justice]], Aron worked as a staff attorney for the [[ACLU]]'s National Prison Project.<ref name="Milk"/><ref name="Boney"/><ref name="Lewis">{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Dwight |title=State Prison System Stress Factors Cited |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/111980096/?terms=%22Nan%2BAron%22 |accessdate=4 July 2019 |work=The Tennessean |date=10 January 1978 |location=Nashville, Tennessee |page=4}}</ref> Aron went on to serve as a trial attorney for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,<ref name="Milk"/> where she litigated race and sex discrimination cases against companies and unions in federal and district courts. In 1979, Aron founded the [[Alliance for Justice]],<ref name="Milk">{{cite journal |last1=Milk |first1=Leslie |title=June 2006: 100 Most Powerful Women |journal=Washingtonian |date=1 June 2006 |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2006/06/01/june-2006-100-most-powerful-women/ |accessdate=6 July 2019}}</ref> and began investigating judicial nominees during [[Ronald Reagan]]'s presidency.<ref name="Savage"/> She established the Alliance's Judicial Selection Project in 1985.<ref name=wapo/>
Aron has taught at [[Georgetown University|Georgetown]] and [[George Washington University Law School]]s, and serves on the Dean's Advisory Council at [[American University]]'s Washington College of Law.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://search.marquiswhoswho.com/profile/100022408877|title=Marquis Who's Who|access-date=February 4, 2019}}</ref>
Aron authored ''Liberty and Justice for All: Public Interest Law in the 1980s and Beyond'' in 1989,<ref name="Klages">{{cite journal |last1=Klages |first1=Karen |title=REAGAN-ERA REBOUND: Public-interest groups healthy, find new funding |journal=ABA Journal |date=July 1989 |volume=75 |issue=7 |pages=40–41 |jstor=20760569 |publisher=American Bar Association}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The Public Bar |journal=Progressive |date=April 1989 |volume=53 |issue=4 |page=47 |issn=0033-0736}}</ref> which the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]'' said was "[s]ure to evoke a new pledge of allegiance to public interest law",<ref name="Harvard">{{cite journal |title=Liberty and Justice for All (Book) |journal=Harvard Law Review |date=November 1989 |volume=103 |issue=1 |page=402 |url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=7736725&site=ehost-live |accessdate=6 July 2019 |issn=0017-811X}}</ref> as well as ''Justice in the Making—A Citizen's Guide'' in 1993 with Alliance for Justice.<ref name=":0" />
Aron referenced overcoming the dual challenges of being a woman and a Jew in the State Department in 2004.<ref name="Boney" />
==Personal life==
Aron was born in a Jewish household in 1948 in New York City.<ref name="Boney"/> She is married to psychiatrist Bernard Arons; they have three children.<ref name="Milk"/>
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