1. Nan Aron was born on 1948 and is an American lawyer and the founder and president of Alliance for Justice, a liberal judicial advocacy group in the United States.
10 Facts About Nan Aron
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Staunchly progressive, Aron has been a noted opponent of conservative judicial nominees in the United States.
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Nan Aron 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.
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Nan Aron is considered a key player in confirmation hearings for judicial nominees, and, in 2005, was called "the Madame Defarge of liberal court watchers" in the Wall Street Journal.
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In 1979, Nan Aron founded the Alliance for Justice, and began investigating judicial nominees during Ronald Reagan's presidency.
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Nan Aron established the Alliance's Judicial Selection Project in 1985.
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Nan Aron has taught at Georgetown and George Washington University Law Schools, and serves on the Dean's Advisory Council at American University's Washington College of Law.
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Nan Aron referenced overcoming the dual challenges of being a woman and a Jew in the State Department in 2004.
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Nan Aron was born in a Jewish household in 1948 in New York City.
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Nan Aron is married to psychiatrist Bernard Arons; they have three children.