Janet Reno Death: First Female U.S. Attorney General Dies At 78, How She's Being Remembered [VIDEO]
Just one day before the American people potentially elect their first female President, the first woman to serve as the U.S. Attorney General has passed away.
Janet Reno, who held the office during Bill Clinton's Presidency and was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease during her tenure back in 1995, died from complications of the disease on Monday at age 78. She died at her home in Miami-Dade County in Florida.
Reno's time as the Attorney General is most remembered, according to the New York Times, by a deadly federal raid on the compound of a religious cult in Waco, Texas back in 1993, and the 2000 seizure of Elian Gonzalez to return him to Cuba, both of which led to fierce criticism of her. Her relationship with then-President Clinton was also a strained one because of her decision to expand an inquiry into Whitewater, as well as his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, which led to his impeachment.
Since news of her death, several political figures have spoken out about her on social media, with some honoring her memory and the fact that she was one of the women to break the glass ceiling by having the position she did:
More have taken to social media however to use her death as a bit of a political prop just one day before the election however, with several comments about her actions as Attorney General, and reminders that she was a part of the Clinton Administration, in an effort to garner less support for Hillary Clinton's campaign: