JANET RENO 1938 LAWYER AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL RENO JANET 1938 U.S GOV'T JUDICIAL U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION JANET RENO WAS BORN IN MIAMI IN 1960 SHE GRADUATED FROM CORNELL UNIVERSITY WHERE SHE HAD MAJORED IN CHEMISTRY AND SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE WOMEN'S SELF GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION RENO THEN ENROLLED AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL WHERE SHE WAS ONE OF ONLY 16 WOMEN IN A CLASS OF MORE THAN 500 STUDENTS SHE COMPLETED LAW SCHOOL AND BECAME A LAWYER IN 1963 IN 1971 SHE WAS NAMED STAFF DIRECTOR OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE OF THE FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND IN 1973 ACCEPTED A POSITION WITH THE DADE COUNTY STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FROM 1976 TO 1978 SHE WORKED IN PRIVATE PRACTICE RENO WAS APPOINTED STATE ATTORNEY FOR DADE COUNTY FLORIDA IN 1978 AND SERVED IN THAT POSITION UNTIL 1993 PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON APPOINTED JANET RENO TO BE U.S ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKING HER THE FIRST WOMAN EVER TO HOLD THAT POSITION SHE OVERSAW THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION'S RAID ON A BRANCH DAVIDIAN COMPOUND OUTSIDE WACO TEXAS AND AUTHORIZED FEDERAL PROSECUTORS TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY FOR TWO SUSPECTS CHARGED IN THE 1995 BOMBING OF A FEDERAL BUILDING IN OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA SHE ALSO APPOINTED INDEPENDENT COUNSEL KENNETH STARR TO INVESTIGATE QUESTIONABLE FINANCIAL DEALINGS OF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON RENO EXPANDED THE INVESTIGATION TO INCLUDE PRESIDENT CLINTON'S ACTIONS IN A CIVIL LAWSUIT
