Breaking Barriers: Arlene Violet, America's First Female Attorney General

Up until the mid-1980s, no U.S. state had ever elected a woman to be attorney general It took a former Roman Catholic nun in America's smallest state to shatter that glass ceiling.

In 1984, Arlene Violet – running as a Republican in deep blue Rhode Island – was elected attorney general. Her goals were to strengthen victims’ rights, and to try to root out the state's entrenched public corruption .

In this 1988 interview she reveals what happened next.

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