Andrew Samuel Effron[1] (born September 18, 1948)[2] is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

[3] Effron was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Effron earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1970 and then received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1975, and also graduated from The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School at the University of Virginia.

[2] Effron served on active duty in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1976 to 1979 and then as a reserve officer until 1994.

His father was an officer in the Army Air Corps during World War II and his mother was a civilian employee of the Military Intelligence Division at the War Department.