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. : 29–30 After a year, Reno returned to Florida where she was a debating champion and salutatorian at Coral Gables Senior High School.

: 29–30 There, Janet continued her education and traveled around Europe during breaks from school.

After she completed middle school in 1951, Reno's parents sent her to stay with her uncle who served as a U.S. Reno attended public school in Miami-Dade County, Florida. 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.' The Renos' lot for the house originally was 21 acres, some of which they later sold to pay for the children's education. The Reno family moved to the house Jane built when Janet 8 was years old. Jane Reno decided to build a new home herself near the Everglades, learning masonry, electrical work, and plumbing for the task. : 18Īs the family expanded, they outgrew the house and couldn't afford a larger one. : 18 Reno helped her parents churn butter, which the family sold to make ends meet. In 1943, the Reno family moved to a house in then-rural South Miami it came with enough land to keep farm animals, including cows, chicken, ducks, goats, and turkeys. Janet Reno had three younger siblings: Mark writer Robert Reno and Maggy Hurchalla. Janet's father, Henry Olaf Reno (né Rasmussen), was an emigrant from Denmark and a reporter for the Miami Herald for 43 years. 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. 3.1 Clinton administration investigations.

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