A Tampa-area native, Pam Bondi became the second Floridian and the third woman to hold the office of U.S. attorney general.

Lucy P. Bernier, Oneonta’s first female city prosecutor and city court judge, died Feb. 5 in Oneonta. She was 69. Bernier obtained her law degree from Albany Law School, and in 1981, joined her mother ...

U.S. Senate votes 54-46 to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general. Florida's senators, both Republicans, voted for Bondi's confirmation. Janet Reno was the first female attorney general.