MIAMI (AP) – The latest on the death of former Attorney General Janet Reno (all times EDT).
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President Barack Obama is calling Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general who died Monday, an American original.
Obama said in a statement Monday that Reno inspired a generation of lawyers and fought for a more just nation. Obama said that Reno “was tough as nails and never cowered in her fight for what was right.”
Reno died early Monday at age 78 from complications of Parkinson’s disease, which she had battled for more two decades.