Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, died on Monday from complications of Parkinson's disease, her sister, Maggy Hurchalla, tells CNN. She was 78. Reno, appointed by Bill Clinton, was at the center of several political firestorms during the Clinton administration, starting with the botched 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian complex outside Waco, Texas, and ending with the controversial seizure of 5-year-old Cuban immigrant Elian Gonzalez in 2000. Reno discovered she had Parkinson's in 1995, only two years into her tenure, but still became the second-longest-serving attorney general in U.S. history, after William Wirt in the early 1800s.
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