Editing Janet Reno (section)

==Early life and education ==
Reno was born in [[Miami]], Florida. Reno's mother, Jane Wallace (née Wood), wrote a weekly home improvement column for ''[[The Miami News]]'' under a male pseudonym and later became an investigative reporter for the paper.<ref name="BBC"/><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article113053108.html|title=Janet Reno's early years in Miami: Peacocks, bare feet, stubborn independence|last=Driscoll|first=Amy|date=November 7, 2018|work=miami herald|access-date=September 2, 2018|language=en|archive-date=September 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903082353/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article113053108.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Janet's father, Henry Olaf Reno (né Rasmussen),{{Efn|Henry's father decided to change the family's Scandinavian name to avoid prejudice and settled on "[[Reno]]" after looking at a map of the United States.<ref name=":3" />{{rp|13}}}} was an emigrant from Denmark and a reporter for the ''[[Miami Herald]]'' for 43 years.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/713648.stm|title=Janet Reno: From Waco to Elian|work=BBC News|date=April 14, 2000|access-date=January 5, 2008|archive-date=September 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907201558/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/713648.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> Janet Reno had three younger siblings: Mark, writer [[Robert Reno]], and [[Maggy Hurchalla]].<ref name=":2" /> In 1943, the Reno family moved to a house in then-rural [[South Miami, Florida|South Miami]]; it came with enough land to keep farm animals, including cows, chicken, ducks, goats, and turkeys.<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|18}} Reno helped her parents churn butter, which the family sold to make ends meet.<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|18}}

As the family expanded, they outgrew the house and couldn't afford a larger one.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Anderson|first=Paul|title=Janet Reno: Doing the Right Thing|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc.|year=1994|isbn=0-471-01858-9|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/janetrenodoingri00ande/page/12 12]|url=https://archive.org/details/janetrenodoingri00ande/page/12}}</ref> Jane Reno decided to build a new home herself near the [[Everglades]], learning masonry, electrical work, and plumbing for the task.<ref name=":3" /> The Reno family moved to the house Jane built when Janet was 8 years old.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/us/janet-reno-dead.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/us/janet-reno-dead.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Janet Reno, First Woman to Serve as U.S. Attorney General, Dies at 78|last=Hulse|first=Carl|date=November 7, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=November 8, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The house would be Reno's lifelong home and a source of inspiration; she later said, "the house is a symbol to me that you can do anything you really want if it's the right thing to do and you put your mind to it."<ref name=":3" /> The Renos' lot for the house originally was 21 acres, some of which they later sold to pay for the children's education.<ref name=":0" />

Reno attended public school in [[Miami-Dade County, Florida]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{cite book|last=Hightower-Langston|first=Donna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZuzP2yWtmj4C&q=janet+reno&pg=PA185|title=A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists|date=2014|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=9781438107929|pages=183}}</ref>  After she completed middle school in 1951, Reno's parents sent her to stay with her uncle who served as a U.S. military judge in [[Regensburg, Germany]].<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|29–30}} There, Janet continued her education and traveled around Europe during breaks from school.<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|29–30}} After a year, Reno returned to Florida where she was a debating champion and [[salutatorian]] at [[Coral Gables Senior High School]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> In 1956 she enrolled at [[Cornell University]], where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board.<ref name=":1" /> After graduating from Cornell, Reno enrolled at [[Harvard Law School]], one of 16 women in a class of 500 students.<ref name="Anderson, Curt, Reno died" /> She graduated from Harvard in 1963.<ref name="Fox News, Reno dies at 78">{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-us-attorney-general-janet-reno-dies-at-78|title=Former US attorney general Janet Reno dies at 78|date=November 7, 2016|publisher=Fox News Channel|language=en-US|access-date=November 7, 2016|archive-date=September 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904201155/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/07/former-us-attorney-general-janet-reno-dies-at-78.html|url-status=live}}</ref>