Nancy Hollander Wikipedia, Age, Family, Married, Husband, Lawyer Bio

Name Nancy HollanderAge / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB As of 2022, she is around 78 years old.Wiki Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Nancy Hollander is an American criminal defense lawyer and legal expert from New York. She hit the media eyeballs when Hollywood star Jodie Foster played the role of Nancy in the 2021 film, The Mauritanian.
Smart, cutthroat and confident, Nancy has never backed down from a challenge, even when she was arrested for protesting against human rights violations in South Africa. More noteworthy is the fact that she has taken on high-profile clients that other lawyers wouldn’t even dare to touch.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Nancy was born in New York and raised in Dallas, Texas, USA. When she was younger, she used to enjoy watching movies with her father.
Though she is currently single, Nancy has been married 3 times before. Her marriage with her 3rd husband lasted for 12 years. The couple spent most of their relationship traveling between Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Chicago, Illinois.
Hollander is a mother to an adult son who lives in Florida with his wife and children. When her son was young, Nancy was a public defender and she left that job because she was a single mother.
Nancy’s brother lives in Paris, France, and is sick, but she was unable to visit him much, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nancy spends most of her time working in New York but regularly travels to Albuquerque.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

Nancy graduated cum-laude from the University of Michigan in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. During her time in Michigan, she was arrested for being a part of a fair housing protest.
Hollander then moved to New Mexico, where she earned a Juris Doctor of Law from The University of New Mexico School of Law in 1978.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Three years after being arrested for protesting for fair housing at the University of Michigan, Hollander spent more time in jail protesting against Apartheid in South Africa and the involvement of Chase Bank in human rights violations.
After college, Nancy began working in Albuquerque as a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union.
In 1980, she joined the law firm Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward PA. A few years later, she was named a Partner in the firm.
For over three decades, Hollander has represented several organizations and individuals accused of various crimes, from terrorism to espionage.
She is also admitted to being a lawyer by several institutions, including 9 U.S. Courts of Appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals.
Hollander is an International Criminal Court counsel member and was responsible for securing the release of whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning after she’d been sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking more than 750,000 files of top-secret information to the infamous website Wikileaks.
In addition to several other accolades and high-profile cases, Nancy has also taught criminal defense courses and written and taught more than 200 seminars worldwide.
She is also the author of a book titled Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago, which she co-authored in 1971 with her ex-husband Todd Gitlin, an activist. Todd was Nancy’s 1st husband.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

In February 2021, Hollander was portrayed by legendary actress Jodie Foster in the film, The Mauritanian. After the movie was released, Nancy mentioned in an interview that other than the birth of her son and her grandson, Jodie Foster portraying her was the most exciting thing ever to happen in her life.
Nancy has earned several awards throughout her career including being named one of America’s Top 100 Lawyers.

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