First Female U.S Attorney General Janet Reno has died at 78

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The first female Attorney General of the United States Janet Reno was appointed in 1993 by the former U.S President Bill Clinton. She has died on 7^th November 2016 at the age of 78, due to complexity of Parkinson’s disease. The New York Times informed that Reno had experienced both admiring and criticized situations in her managing of various crises that originated during her 8 years of service under the administration of Bill Clinton. Ms. Reno experienced two massive events during her tenure as Attorney General; first one took place in 1993, a deadly federal raid on the compound of a religious place in Waco, Texas and the other was seizing a young Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez by the government at the time when he was at the center of an international custody.

In the above mentioned events and in others, Ms. Reno was praised for showing integrity and interest for accepting responsibilities, but she was also criticized. Republicans blamed her in 1997 for providing shelter to the U.S President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. She also rejected the proposal for an independent counsel for investigation in the White House regarding allegations on fund raising issue. Reno also supervised the federal prosecutions of domestic terrorists Ted Kaczynski, Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh and the Egyptian national terrorist Sheik Omar Abdul- Rehman. Reno grew up in Miami and her parents were journalists. She joined Harvard Law School in 1960. In 1970, she joined as staff director for the Florida House of Representatives. She served 14 years as Dade County State Attorney before joining the team of Bill Clinton.