Janet Reno

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Janet Reno

Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938 in Miami , Florida ; † November 7, 2016 there ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ). She was the 78th Attorney General of the United States from 1993 to 2001 and the first woman to hold the position. Her tenure of eight years is the second longest after that of William Wirt at the beginning of the 19th century.

Life

Janet Reno was born to the Danish immigrant Henry Reno, who renamed his last name from Rasmussen, and the American Jane Wood. Both her father and mother were newspaper reporters in Miami. Reno had three younger siblings.

After attending school in Coral Gables , she enrolled at Cornell University in New York State . There she studied chemistry until she moved to Harvard Law School in 1960 . By then, she was one of only 16 women in the prestigious law school. She received her Bachelor of Laws in 1963.

In 1971 she was appointed to the Florida House of Representatives , where she served as director of staff on the Justice Committee until 1973. From 1973 she worked in the Miami-Dade County's attorney's office before moving to a private law firm in 1976. In 1978 she returned to Dade County as a prosecutor , where she was re-elected four times.

On February 11, 1993, Reno was nominated as attorney general by US President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the US Senate on March 11 . The Senate had denied confirmation to the women Zoë Baird and Kimba Wood, who had previously been nominated by Clinton for office, after it became known that they had employed illegal migrants as nannies in the household (see Nannygate ) .

Reno remained attorney general throughout the Clinton administration, serving longer than most of her counterparts in the US cabinet . During her tenure, the events in Waco, Texas in 1993 , the arrest and conviction of "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski , the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City , the Lewinsky affair and the conviction of Microsoft for violations of antitrust law related the so-called browser war .

Janet Reno was not married and had no children. She died of complications from Parkinson's disease , which she had suffered from since 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curt Anderson: Janet Reno, Former US Attorney General, Dies at Age 78 . AP article in ABC News , November 7, 2016, accessed November 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ Janet Reno: From Waco to Elian. BBC News , April 14, 2004, accessed November 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Max Blau: Janet Reno, first female US attorney general, dies at 78 . CNN , November 7, 2016, accessed November 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Reno, Janet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Miami , Florida
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2016
Place of death Miami , Florida