Not sure if already posted on DU: Janet Reno, First Female U.S. Attorney General, Dies At 78

[Farmgirl1961]

Janet Reno, the first female attorney general of the United States, has died of complications from Parkinson’s disease, relatives told the AP and CNN.

She was 78.

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Reno became attorney general under President Bill Clinton in 1993. She ran the Justice Department during some of the administration’s most prominent controversies, including the raid of a Waco, Texas, cult compound that left over 80 people dead and the decision to return 6-year-old Elián González to his father in Cuba. Reno was also caught in the crosshairs of many of Clinton’s personal legal troubles.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/janet-reno-dead-dies_us_582045b8e4b0e80b02cafa32

[niyad]

1. requiescat in pace, janet, and thank you for all you have done.