Eleanor D. Acheson

Eleanor Dean Acheson
Born	c. 1947
Residence	Washington, D.C.
Education	Westover School
Alma mater	Wellesley College George Washington University Law School
Known for	Assistant Attorney General of the United States
Spouse(s)	Emily C. Hewitt
Parent(s)	David Campion Acheson Patricia James Castles
Relatives	Dean Gooderham Acheson (grandfather) Edward Campion Acheson (great-grandfather) William Gooderham (3x great grandfather)

Eleanor ("Eldie") D. Acheson is an American lawyer who served as Assistant Attorney General of the United States in the Clinton Administration.

Acheson is the daughter of David Campion Acheson (born 1921) and Patricia James Castles (1925-2000) who married in 1943. Her mother Patricia 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, is 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 is 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 Alice Acheson, was a painter and graduate of Wellesley College, was the daughter of Louis Stanley, a railroad lawyer and Jane C. Stanley, a watercolorist. Alice's grandfather was John Mix Stanley, a renowned painter of American Indian life in the Wild West.

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