Napolitano, Janet

Napolitano, Janet

▪ American lawyer and politician
in full  Janet Ann Napolitano 
born Nov. 29, 1957, New York, N.Y., U.S.
 
 American lawyer and politician who served as attorney general (1999–2003) and governor (2003–09) of Arizona and as secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS; 2009– ) in the administration of Pres. Barack Obama (Obama, Barack).

      Napolitano's family moved from the Northeast to the Southwest when she was a child. She attended Santa Clara University, graduating with a degree in political science in 1979, and she went on to earn her law degree from the University of Virginia (1983). She settled in Arizona, where she clerked for a circuit court judge before entering private practice.

      One of Napolitano's earliest appearances on the national stage was at the 1991 U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas (Thomas, Clarence); Napolitano represented Anita Hill, a law professor who alleged that Thomas had sexually harassed her. In 1993 Pres. Bill Clinton (Clinton, Bill) nominated Napolitano to serve as U.S. attorney for Arizona, although her confirmation was delayed for more than a year by Senate Republicans who remembered her role at the Thomas hearings. She distinguished herself as U.S. attorney, obtaining federal funds for additional state police officers and taking the lead on several high-profile cases.

 In 1998 Napolitano was elected attorney general of Arizona, becoming the first woman to hold that position. She overhauled the office's family services division and presided over a number of death-penalty cases. Napolitano was elected governor of Arizona in 2002, and she made border control, education reform, and economic issues her top priorities. She easily won reelection in 2006. Two years later Napolitano was nominated by Obama to serve as secretary of the DHS, and she was confirmed by the Senate in January 2009; she was the first woman to head the department.
 

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