Janet Reno, Attorney General During Clinton Probes, Dies at 78

By Laurence Arnold, Bloomberg News

Janet Reno, whose eight-year tenure as the first female U.S. attorney general was overshadowed by the work of independent counsels to whom she referred investigations of President Bill Clinton and his administration, has died. She was 78.

She died early Monday at her home in Miami from complications of Parkinson’s disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D’Alemberte was cited by the Associated Press as saying.

A self-described “awkward old maid” who topped 6 feet, 1 inch in height, Reno was one of the most identifiable figures in the Clinton administration, her determined independence from the White House ...