Since retiring, 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.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, April 29, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Nancy Alden with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Nancy Alden celebrates many years' experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
After completing course work in French at the University of Lausanne and piano at the Lausanne Conservatory in Europe, Ms. Alden earned a bachelor's degree and master of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa and a JD from the University of Colorado's Law School.
Subsequently, she became licensed to practice law in Iowa, Colorado and Arizona before joining the Iowa Civil Rights Commission on a special project for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Over the years she gained valuable expertise with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a supervisory trial attorney and in private practice with Frascona, Mc Clough and Joiner. Ms. Alden also worked as a real estate broker in Boulder, Colorado for a short time.
Between 1989 and 1991 Ms. Alden worked as a trial attorney for the office of the Arizona Attorney General, From 1991until her retirement in 2015, Ms. Alden honed her expertise in administrative law as a judge for the Office of Hearings and Appeals with the U.S. Social Security Commission deciding disability cases. Driven to remain abreast of changes in the field, she aligned herself with such organizations as the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Alongside her work, Ms. Alden supports the Snow Leopard Trust and several animal charities.
Since retiring, 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 takes the most 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, she 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. Now retired, Ms. Alden aims to pursue her passions for sculpting and writing. 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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