Eleanor 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.
She wrote books for students of American history including America's Colonial Heritage, Our Federal Government, and The Supreme Court.
[3] 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.
[10] She was public policy and government affairs director at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force until January 2007, in which capacity she led efforts on Capitol Hill to secure funds for the LGBT community.
[11] Although she left that job after her appointment in 2007 as vice president and general counsel of Amtrak,[12] she continues to be a strategy advisor to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, representing the group in key meetings on Capitol Hill.