Watch Janet Reno's Swearing In as First Female Attorney General

Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General, has died. During her eight years in office, crime dropped steadily, the first decline in decades. Reno was criticized early in her tenure for approving an FBI raid on a Texas religious cult in which 75 people were killed, but she won praise for accepting responsibility. She passed away on Monday Nov. 7, 2016, at age 78 from complications of Parkinson’s disease.