Title: Retired U.S. Administrative Law Judge
Company: U.S. Social Security Administration
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Nancy Ann Alden, Retired U.S. Administrative Law Judge at U.S. Social Security Administration, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Lawyers for dedication, achievements, and leadership in law.
Before embarking on her professional path, Ms. Alden completed coursework in French at the University of Lausanne and piano at the Lausanne Conservatory in Europe in the early 1960s. She continued her academic efforts at the at the University of Iowa, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1964 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1965. She concluded her studies at the University of Colorado’s Law School in 1968, graduating with a Doctor of Jurisprudence. Following these accomplishments, Ms. Alden became licensed to practice law by the State Bar of Arizona, the Iowa State Bar Association, and the Colorado Bar Association prior to beginning her career with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, with which she worked on a special project for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Throughout her decades-spanning career, Ms. Alden gained valuable expertise as an attorney with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and in private practice with Frascona, Mc Clough and Joiner. She has also found success with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a supervisory trial attorney. Likewise, she briefly worked as a real estate broker in Boulder, Colorado from 1977 to 1978. Between 1989 and 1991, Ms. Alden served as a trial attorney for the office of the Arizona Attorney General.
Currently retired, Ms. Alden excelled in the field of administrative law as a judge for the Office of Hearings and Appeals with the U.S. Social Security Commission, with which she presided over disability cases between 1991 and 2015. Beyond her primary responsibilities within the field, she has been affiliated with such organizations as the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Ms. Alden additionally supports the Snow Leopard Trust, among several other animal charities.
In recent years, Ms. Alden has fostered her creative passions, performing two concertos with eight symphony musicians and several solos. She is also the author of five short stories. While her career has been filled with highlights, she is incredibly pride in impacting the legal field with her work on the Bond case, a highly publicized Colorado Supreme Court case in which the defendants requested but were ultimately denied access to all the information discovered during the Bond litigants’ counseling sessions.
Though hard work and dedication have brought her far in her career, Ms. Alden credits her success to her grandparents, Levi and Ella Patterson, who purchased the family farm in 1900, which is still in the family today; her mother, Esther Alden; her aunt Hazel’s husband R.K Craft, a lawyer in Adel, Iowa; and Paul Smelkinson, a chief administrative law judge in Arizona. Ms. Alden aims to pursue her passions for sculpting and writing in the coming years. A Hollywood agent has pitched her latest work called “Braden,” a tale about the murder of Jimmy Hoffa and a double amputation suffered by one of her personal injury clients.
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