Eleanor D. Acheson
Corporate Secretary and Ethics Officer
Eleanor D. "Eldie" Acheson is the Corporate Secretary and Ethics Officer of Amtrak, having stepped down as the company’s Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel effective October 1, 2024. Eldie will be retiring from Amtrak effective February 1, 2025, concluding 18 years of service to America’s Railroad.
Eldie’s legal career before Amtrak included both public and private sector work. In 1993, she was appointed by President William J. Clinton to serve as Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Office of Policy Development, managing the work of the DOJ in the appointment process of U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals judges and justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. She also advised the Attorney General, other DOJ senior leadership, the counsel to the President and White House advisors on legal policy issues, serving in that position until January 2001.
Prior to her appointment in the DOJ, Eldie spent 19 years as a trial attorney at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
Corporate Secretary and Ethics Officer
Eleanor D. "Eldie" Acheson is the Corporate Secretary and Ethics Officer of Amtrak, having stepped down as the company’s Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel effective October 1, 2024. Eldie will be retiring from Amtrak effective February 1, 2025, concluding 18 years of service to America’s Railroad.
Eldie’s legal career before Amtrak included both public and private sector work. In 1993, she was appointed by President William J. Clinton to serve as Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Office of Policy Development, managing the work of the DOJ in the appointment process of U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals judges and justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. She also advised the Attorney General, other DOJ senior leadership, the counsel to the President and White House advisors on legal policy issues, serving in that position until January 2001.
Prior to her appointment in the DOJ, Eldie spent 19 years as a trial attorney at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
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