At the time of his birth, Acheson's father was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
His great-grandfather was John Mix Stanley (1814–1872), a renowned painter of American Indian life in the Wild West.
[9] Alice graduated from Wellesley College and over the years exhibited her oil paintings and watercolors at New York's Wildenstein and Washington's Franz Bader Gallery, and in such museums as the Corcoran and the Phillips Collection.
[9] In 1942, Acheson was commissioned in the United States Naval Reserve and served until 1946 in the Pacific theater, seeing action in the Solomon Islands, New Guinea and the Philippines.
[11] In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that Acheson was resigning from the U.S. Attorney's office to become a special assistant in the United States Secretary of the Treasury, under Henry H.
She wrote books for students of American history including America's Colonial Heritage, Our Federal Government, and The Supreme Court.
[13] Acheson resided in the Foggy Bottom section of Washington, D.C., and served on many government committees including the Presidential Commission on the space shuttle Challenger accident.