Janet Wood Reno is a former Attorney General

United States Attorney General

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 of the United States (1993–2001). She was nominated by President

President of the United States

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 Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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 on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the first female Attorney General and the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt

William Wirt (Attorney General)

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Reno's father, Henry Olaf Reno (original surname

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 Rasmussen

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), emigrated to the United States from Denmark and for forty-three years was a police reporter for the Miami Herald.