Andrew J. Nussbaum ’85 has served on Amherst College's Board of Trustees since 2010, as an elected Alumni Trustee for six years prior to being appointed a term trustee in 2016. He was elected Chair of the Board in 2018. He is co-chair, Executive Committee and partner in the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he specializes in mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions and corporate governance.

Nussbaum was a Russian major at Amherst, a varsity swimmer, and a summa cum laude graduate. He earned a master’s degree from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and later a law degree from the University of Chicago. He was a law clerk to the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from 1991 to 1992, while she was on the U.S. Court of Appeals, and to the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia from 1992 to 1993.

Nussbaum is a member of the board of directors of the Partnership for New York City, and of Asphalt Green, a nonprofit organization providing sports and fitness to children in New York City public schools, as well as adults in need. He previously served on the Board of Governors of the Folger Shakespeare Library. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Darcy Miller Nussbaum, and their three daughters.