Eleanor D. Acheson
Eleanor "Eldie" Dean Acheson (born 1947) is an American lawyer who served as Assistant Attorney General of the United States for the Office of Policy Development as part of the Clinton administration. Early life Acheson is the daughter of David Campion Acheson (1921–2018) and Patricia James Castles (1925–2000) who married in 1943. Her mother was from New York and was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. She taught at the Cathedral School from 1959 until the mid-1960s and had earlier taught at the Potomac and Madeira Schools. She wrote books for students of American history including America's Colonial Heritage, Our Federal Government, and The Supreme Court. Her father, David Campion Acheson, was an American attorney who worked for the United States Atomic Energy Commission and served as an assistant to former Treasury secretary Henry H. Fowler. Her grandfather was the former United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Acheson's great-grandfather was Edward Campion Acheson (1858–1934), an English-born Church of England priest who moved to the U.S. to become Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut. Acheson's great-grandmother was Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham, the Canadian-born granddaughter of prominent Canadian distiller William Gooderham (1790–1881), who was a founder of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery. Her grandmother,