Arlene Violet (born 1943) is a religious nun at the Sisters of Mercy and the Attorney General of Rhode Island 1985-1987. She is the first female Attorney General elected in the United States.
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Biography
Arlene Violet was born into a middle-class voter family in Providence, Rhode Island. After attending Providence College, he entered the Sisters of Mercy convent in 1961, taking his last vow in 1969. Violet said he joined the monastery because "I want to do something with my life and try to make a difference, and I see a nun as a person can make that difference. "
Violet then earned her bachelor's degree from Salve Regina University and was a school teacher in a disadvantaged neighborhood in the early 1970s. Out of law, he enrolled at Boston Law School, graduating in 1974. During his school, he worked in the judge's chamber and did an internship at the Rhode Island Public Prosecutor's Office. Due to financial difficulties at the monastery, he abandoned his legal work and returned to the monastery, serving as an administrative nun until the early 1980s.
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Attorney General Rhode Island
In 1982, he was unsuccessful for the Attorney General. But when he ran again in 1984, Violet won the election, becoming the first female prosecutor in the United States. During his time in office he focused on organized crime, environmental issues, and victims' rights. He also encouraged banking reform.
RISDIC
Shortly after taking office in 1984 Violet learned that Rhode Island Share and Deposit Indemnity Corporation (RISDIC), a private insurance fund intended to protect the country's banking system, is "very under-funded" with only $ 25 million in reserves. He found that RISDIC lends to people who are politically connected without personal guarantees. Violet encouraged the law to require the bank to be insured by the federal government, but this was rejected. Violet warns that the banking system in Rhode Island is a "card house." Four years later, Rhode Island faced a run in the banks, and in January 1991, newly elected governor Bruce Sundlun declared bank emergency.
Other achievements
One of his innovations is using video interviews of child victims rather than direct testimony. He also won recognition to reopen the case of Von BÃÆ'¼low.
Violet lost his election offer in 1986 and his term ended.
Life after politics
After leaving the office, Violet returned to court, taught environmental law at Brown University, held talk shows at WHJJ Radio from 1990 to 2006, and wrote weekly political columns. He has written two books of Convictions: My Journey from the Convent to the Courtroom (1988), autobiography, and The Mob and Me (2010) a book on witness protection programs. He also compiled a manual on search seizure law. He was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1996.
She writes Musical, Family, Musical Drama about Mob, , with composer and lyricist Enrico Garzilli, aired by a special arrangement with Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI in June 2011.
See also
- List of women general prosecutors in the United States
Notes and references
External links
- "Chapter Thirteen: The Network". Crimetown . Gimlet Media . Retrieved March 20 2017 . Ã, Including photos and interviews with Arlene Violet
Bibliography
- Women in American Politics: History and Milestones . Los Angeles, California: CQ Press. ISBN: 978-1-60871-007-2.
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