Janet Reno, first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, dies

Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general under President Bill Clinton, has died at 78 from complications of Parkinson’s disease, her goddaughter said. 

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Reno, who spent her final days at home in Miami surrounded by family and friends, served nearly eight years as attorney general, from 1993 to 2001 – the longest stint in a century. 

Her time in office coincided with some major controversies that marked the Clinton administration: the 1993 Waco, Texas, standoff, where Davidian sect leader David Koresh and some 80 followers died; Whitewater, Filegate, bungling at the FBI laboratory, Monica Lewinsky, alleged Chinese nuclear spying and questionable campaign financing in the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election.  Read more…

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