MIAMI (AP) — Shy and admittedly awkward, Janet Reno became a blunt prosecutor and the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general. She was also at the epicenter of a relentless series of political ...

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MIAMI (AP) — Shy and admittedly awkward, Janet Reno became a blunt spoken prosecutor and the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, yet she also was the epicenter of a relentless series of ...

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“When she was in the room, you knew she was in the room,” my mother, professor Judith Stiehm observed of Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general. They were friends and my mother ...

MIAMI (AP) – Former Attorney General Janet Reno, the first woman to hold the top Justice Department job who died last month, never took the easy way out when making the tougher decision was the right ...

The Associated Press is reporting the first female U-S Attorney General has died. Janet Reno’s goddaughter says the 78-year-old trailblazer passed away early today from complications of Parkinson’s ...

MIAMI (AP) — Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, including the seizure of Elian Gonzalez, ...

Janet Reno, the first female U.S. attorney general who served eight tumultuous years with President Bill Clinton, has died at age 78. Reno's goddaughter, Gabrielle D'Alemberte, said she succumbed to ...

MIAMI (AP) - Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, including the seizure of Elian Gonzalez, ...