Janet Reno Quotes


I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I didn't enjoy doing, and almost every day of the year since that June of 1963, I have awakened glad that I was going to work, glad that I was going to court, glad that I was going to grapple with a problem.


Citations

Reno, Janet. "Address to the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia." Federal News Service, 19 May 1993.

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Janet Reno
Janet Reno
  • Born: July 21, 1938
  • Died: November 7, 2016
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Public Servant

Janet Wood Reno was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of the United States from 1993 until 2001. President Bill Clinton nominated Reno on February 11, 1993, and the Senate confirmed her the following month. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second-longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history, after William Wirt.