School likely named for Mourning over Reno

Published 6:21 am Wednesday, June 17, 2009

MIAMI — Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno appears to have lost in a matchup with former NBA star Alonzo Mourning.

The Miami-Dade School Board is scheduled to vote today whether to name a new high school after Reno or Mourning and his wife.

A committee charged with that decision has recommended approving the Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High School Biscayne Bay Campus as the school’s name.

Mourning was a star when he played for the Miami Heat.

Reno was the longtime Miami-Dade state attorney before becoming the country’s first female attorney general. Many in South Florida’s large Cuban-American population disagree with her order to return 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba in 2000.