Justice is the hallmark of Janet Reno's life work and "Justice" is the title of her final public talk as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor. The former U.S. attorney general and Class of 1960 Cornell University graduate will deliver her talk as a sermon Sunday, Nov. 9, at 11 a.m. in Sage Chapel on the Cornell campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Reno is on campus Nov. 3 to Nov. 15 and will keep to the pace she set on her inaugural visit in 2001 as a Rhodes professor. She is the featured participant in a Cornell symposium, titled "Rethinking the Criminalization of Youth," to be held Thursday, Nov. 6, and Friday, Nov. 7, on campus. At the symposium, she will join eminent scholars from around the nation for an intensive examination of the American juvenile justice system and the death penalty. The event is free and open to the public. For information about the symposium, contact Jane Powers at the Family Life Development Center at (607) 255-3993 or e-mail jlp5@cornell.edu .

Reno's final visit as a Rhodes professor finds her engaged with the Cornell community in classes that range from human ecology, law and psychology to history and anthropology. She will meet informally with undergraduate women in Balch Hall, where she was once a resident, and with students who are organizing a Women in Politics group at Cornell.

A graduate of Cornell with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, Reno was the nation's first female U.S. attorney general. She served in that capacity for almost eight years during the Clinton administration, the longest term served as attorney general since before the Civil War. In 2001, Reno returned to Cornell to deliver the senior convocation speech during commencement activities. The Rhodes Class of '56 University Professorship is overseen by the Cornell A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program. Rhodes professors appointed since the program began in 2000 include: architect Richard Meier, a 1956 Cornell alumnus; biomedical scientist Edward M. Scolnick, president of Merck Research Laboratories; and television personality and science educator Bill Nye, a 1977 Cornell alumnus, who visited campus in October of this year.