Nan Aron (born 1948) is an American lawyer^[1] and the founder and president of Alliance for Justice (AFJ), a liberal judicial advocacy group in the United States.^[2][3][4] Staunchly progressive, Aron has been a noted opponent of conservative judicial nominees in the United States.^[5][6] She repeatedly called for former Presidents Bill Clinton^[2] and Barack Obama to be more aggressive in nominating progressives to the bench,^[7] and during George W. Bush's presidency, urged the Democrat-controlled Senate to consider Bush's nominees closely.^[2][8] She is considered a key player in confirmation hearings for judicial nominees,^[2] and, in 2005, was called "the Madame Defarge of liberal court watchers" in the Wall Street Journal.^[5][9]

Aron received her B.A. in sociology and Chinese from Oberlin College and her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.^[9][10] Prior to founding Alliance for Justice, Aron worked as a staff attorney for the ACLU's National Prison Project.^[9][10][11] Aron went on to serve as a trial attorney for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,^[9] 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,^[9] and began investigating judicial nominees during Ronald Reagan's presidency.^[2] She established the Alliance's Judicial Selection Project in 1985.^[5]

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.^[12]

Aron authored Liberty and Justice for All: Public Interest Law in the 1980s and Beyond in 1989,^[13][14] which the Harvard Law Review said was "[s]ure to evoke a new pledge of allegiance to public interest law",^[15] as well as Justice in the Making—A Citizen's Guide in 1993 with Alliance for Justice.^[12]

Aron referenced overcoming the dual challenges of being a woman and a Jew in the State Department in 2004.^[10]

Aron was born in a Jewish household in 1948 in New York City.^[10] She is married to psychiatrist Bernard Arons; they have three children.^[9]