Janet Reno
| Janet Reno | |
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| 78th United States Attorney General | |
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In office March 11, 1993 – January 20, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | William Barr |
| Succeeded by | John Ashcroft |
| State's Attorney for Miami-Dade County, Florida | |
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In office 1978–1993 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Gerstein |
| Succeeded by | Katherine Fernandez Rundle |
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Janet Wood Reno July 21, 1938 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Died | November 7, 2016 (aged 78) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University (BS) Harvard University (JD) |
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Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) served as the Attorney General of the United States from 1993 until 2001. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11, 1993. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second-longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history, after William Wirt.
Reno was born in Miami, Florida. Reno's mother, Jane Wallace (née Wood), raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for The Miami News. Her father, Henry Olaf Reno (né Rasmussen), was an emigrant from Denmark and a reporter for the Miami Herald for 43 years. Janet Reno had three younger siblings: Mark (died 2014); writer Robert Reno (1939–2012); and Maggy Hurchalla. The family moved to property near the Everglades when Reno was 8 years old, living in a house Reno's mother built.
Reno attended public school in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where she was a debating champion, and was valedictorian at Coral Gables Senior High School. In 1956 she enrolled at Cornell University, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board. After graduating from Cornell, Reno enrolled at Harvard Law School, one of only 16 women in a class of 500 students. She graduated from Harvard in 1963.
From 1963 to 1971 Reno worked as an attorney for two Miami law firms. In 1971, she joined the staff of the Judiciary Committee of the Florida House of Representatives. In 1973, she worked on a project to revise the state's system of rules and regulations for criminal procedures. Later in the same year, she accepted a position with the Dade County State Attorney's Office. She worked for the Judiciary Circuit, and left the state attorney's office in 1976 to become a partner in a private law firm.
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