From the Washington Week Vault: The First Female Attorney General
January 28, 2015
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as posted by the channelConfirmation hearings began Wednesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee for Loretta Lynch, President Obama's nominee to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General. If confirmed, Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, would be the first African American woman to hold the post of top law enforcement officer. We look back in the Washington Week Vault to March 1993 when Janet Reno became the first female Attorney General. After a unanimous confirmation vote in the Senate, Reno immediately began tackling a "full plate of issues," according to TIME's Julie Johnson, including the aftermath of the Rodney King beating and issues of racial justice. While Reno was considered to be tough on crime, she also looked at the "economic side of poverty and economic dimensions of crime."
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