Carmen Ortiz
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Official portrait of US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, District of Massachusetts (2009)
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| U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts | |
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In office November 6, 2009 – January 14, 2017 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Michael Sullivan |
| Succeeded by | William D. Weinreb |
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Carmen Milagros Ortiz January 5, 1956 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Thomas Dolan |
| Alma mater |
Adelphi University George Washington University |
Carmen Milagros Ortiz (born January 5, 1956) is a former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
In 2009, she was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama. Ortiz is both the first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. She succeeded Michael Sullivan in that position, with Michael J. Loucks serving as the interim U.S. Attorney between Sullivan's resignation and Ortiz's confirmation. Noteworthy prosecutions by her office include those of Whitey Bulger, Tarek Mehanna, Aaron Swartz, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
In December 2016, Ortiz announced that she would step down from her post in January. Her announcement was not unexpected, due to the fact that President-Elect Donald Trump will have the power to name new US Attorneys.
Born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, Ortiz grew up in East Harlem. Ortiz has said that, as a child, watching Perry Mason on television inspired her to become a lawyer. After graduating from The Saint Agnes School in 1974, Ortiz earned her B.B.A from Adelphi University in 1978, working in her family's gift shop during her years there. Ortiz later earned her J.D. at George Washington University's National Law Center in 1981. In the summer of 1980, Ortiz interned in the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice with Eric Holder, who later become U.S. Attorney General. She also worked on judicial reform in Guatemala with Harvard professor, former Watergate prosecutor, and former deputy attorney general Philip Heymann.
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