Janet Reno, Politician, - Biography,
American Politician
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Pic of her
Born July 21, 1938 Miami, Florida
Height 6 foot 3 ( 1.91
m )
Janet Reno was the first female Attorney General of the United States She
was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on
March 11. She was the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt.
Biography
Reno's
father, Henry Reno (original surname Rasmussen), immigrated to the United States
from Denmark and for forty-three years was a police reporter for the Miami Herald.
Jane Wood, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative
reporter for the Miami News. At a conference on criminality on March 31, 2006,
Reno said that her mother built the Reno family house on the edge of the Everglades,
digging the foundation with her own hands, and installing all of the wiring and
plumbing. Reno's father helped with the heavy work when he came home from work
at night. The house withstood Hurricane Andrew, an experience that left an important
mark on Reno's outlook on life: Reno said that the experience taught her that
if communities are built with the right materials, instilling values such as discipline,
these communities can be made strong and can prevent or withstand violence. Janet
Reno has three younger siblings. She is the sister of columnist Robert Reno, and
aunt to model Hunter Reno. She was one of two Danish Americans in the cabinet,
the other being Lloyd Bentsen.
Reno attended public school in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where she was a debating champion and was valedictorian at Coral Gables High School. In 1956 Reno enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in chemistry, lived in Balch Hall, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board.
In 1960, Reno enrolled at Harvard Law School, one of only sixteen women in a class of more than 500 students. She received her LL.B. from Harvard three years later. She had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer.
In 1971, Reno was named staff director of the Judiciary Committee of the Florida House of Representatives. She helped revise the Florida court system. In 1973 she accepted a position with the Dade County State's Attorney's Office. During this time, disputes over Reno's own sexual orientation[citation needed] became a major part of Republican opponent Jack Thompson's campaign against her, who demanded to know her sexual orientation. She left the state's attorney's office in 1976 to become a partner in a private law firm.
In 1978, Reno was appointed State Attorney for Dade County (now called Miami-Dade County). She was elected to the Office of State Attorney in November 1978 and was returned to office by the voters four more times. She helped reform the juvenile justice system and pursued delinquent fathers for child support payments and established the Miami Drug Court.
During her time in Dade County, she was the lead prosecutor in a police brutality case. She was unable to convict any of the four officers charged with beating Arthur McDuffie in 1979. She had a solid case, giving some officers immunity to testify, but the officers who reached jury trial were acquitted by an all white male jury. This led to one of the worst race riots in U.S. history.
In 1993, Reno was nominated and confirmed as the first female Attorney General under Bill Clinton, after both of his previous nominees, Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, had confirmation problems when it was revealed both had previously employed illegal immigrants as nannies. Reno remained Attorney General for the rest of Clinton's presidency, making her the longest-serving Attorney General since William Wirt in 1829.
During her term, Reno attracted more controversy than any of Clinton's other cabinet members. While Clinton could steer a middle ground between his Democratic supporters and the Republican Congress on economic issues, Reno's job was at the center of a variety of intractable cultural conflicts. This made her a lightning rod for criticism of the Clinton Administration from the right, who often perceived the federal government as a threat to their fundamental freedoms.
In 1995, Reno revealed that she has Parkinson's disease, an incurable degenerative illness that causes muscular stiffness and involuntary trembling.
Reno ran for Governor of Florida in 2002, but lost in the Democratic primary to Bill McBride. Voting problems arose in the election, and she did not concede defeat until a week later. She has since retired from public life.
At
the Justice Department
Reno supervised the following Department of Justice
actions:
The firing of all 93 U.S. attorneys, about which she commented,
"I have asked for their resignations at the request of the President…"
Bringing
suit against the software company Microsoft for violation of the Sherman Antitrust
Act.
Prosecution resulting in the conviction of 21 of the Montana Freemen
after an 81 day armed standoff.
Capture and conviction of the Unabomber.
Capture
and conviction of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols for the Oklahoma City bombing.
Capture and conviction of the illegal aliens allowed in the country to conduct
the World Trade Center bombing (resulting in life-sentences of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman
and 4 conspirators)
Leak to the news media regarding Richard Jewell that led
to the widespread and incorrect presumption of his guilt in the Centennial Olympic
Park bombing. She later apologized, saying "I'm very sorry it happened. I
think we owe him an apology. I regret the leak."
Identification of the
correct suspect (Eric Rudolph) in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing and other
bombings, who remained a fugitive throughout her tenure.
Capture and conviction
of Mir Aimal Kasi for the CIA headquarters shootings.
Branch Davidian
complex April 19, 1993, the day of the ATF's final assault The month-long standoff
and ensuing deaths of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.
Armed seizure of
six year old Elián González and his return to the communist dictatorship
in Cuba
Janet Reno was found in Contempt of Congress in 1998 for refusing
to turn over Department of Justice memos related to investigation of Clinton-Gore
1996 campaign-financing abuses
Refused to investigate Hillary Clinton concerning
the Rose Law Firm billing records which were missing for two years and ultimately
found in the White House with two sets of fingerprints on them. The fingerprints
belonged to Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster.
Post-political work
After
her tenure as attorney general and her unsuccessful gubernatorial election bid,
Reno tours the country giving speeches on topics relating to the criminal justice
system. For example, on March 31, 2006, she spoke at a criminology conference
held at the University of Pennsylvania. At this conference, she stated that she
believes that the education system in this country needs to be improved, as there
is a link between the quality of education and the crime rate. She also believes
that too much money has been diverted away from the juvenile court system and
believes that the government should find some way to make the juvenile courts
work effectively so as to prevent problems in troubled children and adolescents
before these problems are exacerbated by the time these adolescents reach adulthood.
Many comedians have made fun of Reno, characterizing her 6-foot figure as
aggressive and masculine.
On the other hand a poll 1990s Japan once said that mosty Japanese men would like to spend a time on a desert island with her, whether this is true or was a joke is unknown. But as a towering amazon, some people could find her attractive, I think, especially her age. And some younger she is tall.
The lawyer show Ally McBeal also featured Janet Reno's character as Richard Fish's love interest.
Famed Miami female Rap Trio Anquette paid tribute to Reno on the song "Janet Reno" in tribute to Reno's stance on going after deadbeat dads while in the Dade County State Attourney's Office.
Reno was portrayed in a South Park episode entitled "Quintuplets 2000", where she dressed up in a pink Easter Bunny suit to try and infiltrate Stan's home in order to assist the deportation of Romanian quintuplet girls who had defected back to their country.
She is also referenced in The Offspring song "Original Prankster", on the Nellie McKay song "Sari" and in the GZA song "Publicity".
She is also referenced in the Cunninlynguistics song 'Fukinwichu'.
In an episode of The Simpsons ("Bart's Girlfriend"), the church marquee read: "Evil women in history: from Jezebel to Janet Reno." She was referenced again in the episode "Homer Bad Man," in the list of the tabloid show Rock Bottom's correction list, which said, "Janet Reno is evil."
In the 2004 comedy White Chicks, two bored FBI agents waiting in a car posed the hypothetical question, "Who would you rather kiss and go down on - Janet Reno or Rosie O'Donnell? Dying is not an option." The FBI agent replied that he would prefer Rosie O'Donnell, to his partner's disgust.
In a 2007 Super Bowl XLI TV commercial, Janet Reno was among the guests at Chad Johnson's Super Bowl party
One of her relatives is a model.
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