Janet RenoIn office March 12, 1993 – January 20, 2001PresidentBill ClintonDeputyPhilip Heymann Jamie Gorelick Eric HolderPreceded byWilliam Barr16 more rows
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Reno was born on July 21, 1938, in Miami, Florida. The first of four children of journalists Henry and Jane Reno, she grew up in South Dade County, Florida. Her father, a Danish immigrant, wrote for the Miami Herald for forty-three years.
November 7, 2016Janet Reno / Date of death
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Eric Himpton Holder Jr. (born January 21, 1951) is an American lawyer who served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015. Holder, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama, was the first African American to hold the position of U.S. attorney general.
On March 12, 1993, Ms. Reno became the first woman and 78th attorney general. She went on to become the longest serving attorney general in the 20th century.
Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as United States attorney general, died on Monday at 78. She died of complications from Parkinson's disease, according to her family.
She voiced herself in the episode "Dark Knight Court". Her character was voiced by both her and her sister, Maggy Reno Hurchalla, because Janet Reno developed Parkinson's disease in 1995, causing her to be unable to speak longer sentences.
Former US. Attorney General Janet Reno has Parkinson disease, but she never stuffs her hands in her pockets to hide her tremors. Instead she's completely upfront about the neurological disease, which was diagnosed in 1995. “I never try to hide anything,” said the Miami native.
Shortly after she was sworn into the role of Attorney General, Reno became embroiled in controversy over the deadly raid she ordered following a standoff between the Branch Davidians, a religious sect, and federal agents at the sect's compound near Waco, Texas.
The Attorney General is the representative of the public in all legal proceedings for the enforcement of law and the assertion or protection of public rights. The Attorney General defends the constitutionality of Bills referred to the Supreme Court under Article 26 of the Constitution.
Following the 1992 presidential election, Albright helped assemble President Bill Clinton's National Security Council. She was appointed United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997, a position she held until elevation as secretary of state.
She voiced herself in the episode "Dark Knight Court". Her character was voiced by both her and her sister, Maggy Reno Hurchalla, because Janet Reno developed Parkinson's disease in 1995, causing her to be unable to speak longer sentences.
After attending Cornell University for her undergraduate degree and Harvard Law School in 1960, Janet Reno worked as an attorney in Florida for several years. Her work in Florida as an attorney and as county prosecutor from 1978 to 1993 established Reno's stern and liberal reputation.
Reno was thrust into the national spotlight in 1993 when President Bill Clinton appointed her to become the first female U.S. attorney general.
Janet Reno died at her home in Miami-Dade County, Florida on November 7, 2016, at the age of 78. The cause of her death was complications from Parkinson's disease, which she had battled since 1995.
Despite this controversy, Reno became one of the most respected members of the Clinton administration in its first term, known for launching innovative programs designed to steer non-violent drug offenders away from jail and espousing the rights of criminal defendants.
Early Life and Career. Janet Reno was born in Miami, Florida on July 21, 1938. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Cornell University in 1960, she attended Harvard Law School. Reno graduated in 1963 and returned to her native Florida. After several years in private practice, Reno ran for county prosecutor for Dade County in ...
Reno became involved in negotiations and when they stalled in April 2000 she ordered a raid on the U.S. relatives’ Miami home that would ultimately return the young refugee back to his father in Cuba. Her controversial intervention enraged the Cuban American community in Miami.
Later Years and Death By Parkinson's. After leaving the post in 2001, Reno returned to Florida. She ran for governor in 2002, but failed to win the Democratic nomination. Since then, Reno largely stayed out of public life.
on May 17, 1980. She had just lost her biggest case against four Miami-Dade County cops charged in the beating death of a black insurance agent.
In 1972, Miami-Dade’s powerful state attorney, Richard Gerstein, set out to hire Reno, a Harvard Law School graduate recognized as a comer among Miami-Dade’s new breed of good-government liberals.
Over the next two decades, Ayers worked with Reno on an array of stubborn problems — drug use, juvenile offenders, domestic violence, welfare fraud and deadbeat dads.
“I had a little beef with her for state attorney, because she wasn’t up front about her intentions,” said Carhart, who resigned to become a criminal defense attorney.
Reno became a target for criticism in part because she was so easy to hit.
Reno became a target for criticism in part because she was so easy to hit. A Herald series showed that in 1992 — her last year as state attorney — Miami-Dade had the highest crime rate in the nation, but sent convicted felons to state prison at a lower rate than any other large metropolitan area in the country.
READ MORE: Janet Reno dies at 78. “What impressed people was that she went into the black community at night without a police escort and was able to convince people that she did the best she could with the case,” said Florida International University professor Marvin Dunn, once one of Reno’s most vocal black critics.
Janet Reno was a prosecutor, a politician and a pioneer — a brainy South Floridian who grew up barefoot among peacocks and alligators and rose to the highest levels of government as the nation’s first female attorney general.
Ruthlessly honest, stubborn, smart and dryly dismissive of those she thought foolish, Reno served as Miami-Dade state attorney for 15 years — establishing a Drug Court that became a national model — and worked briefly in private practice before Clinton called in 1993.
Tall in both stature and reputation — she stood 6-foot-1 — Reno minced few words and met challenges head on, propensities that placed her at the center of intense social turbulence in the 1980s and ’90s.
She received the Medal of Honor Award, the Florida Bar Association in 1990. On March 12, 1993 , Ms. Reno became the first woman and 78th attorney general.
Artist: Janet Reno was born on July 21, 1938 in Miami, Florida. She received her A.B. degree from Cornell University in 1960, and her LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1963. From 1963-1967, Ms. Reno was an associate at Brigham & Brigham. In 1967, she became a partner at Lewis & Reno and remained there until 1971, ...
She stayed in that position until 1993, when she was appointed Attorney General by President Clinton. Ms. Reno was the President of the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association from 1984 to 1985. Additionally, she was a member of the Special Committee on Criminal Justice in a Free Society of the American Bar Association from 1986-1988.
On March 12, 1993, Reno was confirmed as U.S. attorney general by the U.S. Senate. In this position she saw to the enforcement of national policies on crime, race relations, immigration, corruption, and other legal issues affecting many aspects of American life.
Reno was born on July 21, 1938, in Miami, Florida. The first of four children of journalists Henry and Jane Reno, she grew up in South Dade County, Florida. Her father, a Danish immigrant, wrote for the Miami Herald for forty-three years. As a police reporter, covering news of the police department and local crime, ...
In the spring of 1973 she provided legal assistance to the Florida Senate on a project to revise the state's system of rules and regulations for criminal procedures. These experiences were followed by a job as assistant state attorney for the Eleventh Judiciary Circuit of Florida. She worked for the Judiciary Circuit (the term refers to state court activities within a particular district) from 1973 to 1976.
Reno was severely criticized for the Justice Department's actions during a crisis in Waco, Texas, in 1993, when an extreme religious sect called the Branch Davidians became involved in a standoff with law enforcement officials.
Becoming a lawyer. After graduating from high school, Reno attended Cornell University, earning a degree in chemistry in 1960. Following Cornell she enrolled at Harvard University Law School, becoming one of only sixteen women in a class of five hundred.
She imagined she might become a baseball player, a doctor, or a marine biologist. As an adult, however, her ambitions turned toward matters of justice and law.
Reno also became a target of Republicans in Congress who accused her of failing to investigate vigorously when members of the Clinton administration were charged with illegal practices. At the same time, some members of the Clinton administration felt that Reno was too quick to cave in to Republican demands.
Two years after she became Attorney General, Reno was diagnosed with Parkinson’s after noticing a trembling in her left hand. She announced the diagnosis during a weekly news conference in Washington, and insisted the condition was being controlled by medication and would not impair her ability to do her job. She underscored the point by extending a rock-steady hand.
6 Things Janet Reno Will Be Remembered For. Sorry, the video player failed to load. (Error Code: 100013) Janet Reno, the first female Attorney General of the United States, who served for eight years after being nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993, has died at the age of 78 from complications related to Parkinson’s disease.
In the end, Ferrell settled on Reno dancing, inspired, according to NPR, by reports that she had cut an impressive a figure dancing at a Justice Department party. Although the sketch became iconic (with Reno herself appearing on it on her last day in office, even delivering Ferrell’s signature line, ‘It’s Reno Time!’), it was not without controversy and criticism.
Gunfire erupted during the raid, and four agents and six members of the religious sect perished. That led to a 51-day standoff, which ended on April 19 1993, when Reno approved a raid on the compound using tear gas.
During her 15 years as prosecutor in Miami’s Dade County, where voters returned her to the office five times, Reno gained plenty of experience on cases with national implications, including on narcotics, immigration and corruption. The Ivy League law graduate also had a reputation as an innovator who introduced a special court for drug offenders that mixed punishment with treatment.
The standoff, which began on Feb. 28 1993, before Reno became Attorney General, was sparked when U.S. agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms made a surprise raid on the compound, trying to execute a search warrant.
Shortly after she was sworn into the role of Attorney General, Reno became embroiled in controversy over the deadly raid she ordered following a standoff between the Branch Davidians, a religious sect, and federal agents at the sect’s compound near Waco, Texas.
When Janet Reno executed a trust in 2008, it was just a few years after she’d concluded her run as the second-longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history.
Reno died on November 7, 2016. In Art. V.D. of her trust, the trustee is instructed to sell the Reno home and split the proceeds equally among her nieces and nephews if Reno’s brothers, Mark and Robert, predecease her (which they did).
Based on this agreement the trial court and the 3d DCA both ruled the Reno home should go to MDC instead of being sold. Here’s how the 3d DCA explained its rationale:
When her mother died in 1992, Reno inherited the family’s built-by-hand, un-airconditioned, rambling Cracker-style house that had served as the launching pad for her career and remained an emotional touchstone for life. Here’s how the house and surrounding 3+ acres were described in a 2002 Miami Herald story:
Reno never married or had children . The focus of her planning was instead on what was supposed to happen with the family home she herself had inherited from her mother. This concern is so important to Reno the word “homestead” gets repeated 18 times in her trust.