Carmen Ortiz
Carmen Milagros Ortiz (born January 5, 1956)[1] is an attorney, college instructor, and former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Carmen Ortiz
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In 2009, she was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama.[2] Ortiz was 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.[3] Noteworthy prosecutions by her office include those of Whitey Bulger, Tarek Mehanna, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as well as the controversial prosecution of Aaron Swartz which prompted his suicide.
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 incoming president Donald Trump would have the authority to name new U.S. Attorneys.[4]
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Personal life[edit]
Ortiz has two daughters and is married to IBM executive Thomas J. Dolan; her first husband, Michael Vittorio Morisi, died in 2000.[78]
Ortiz reportedly considered a campaign for Governor of Massachusetts, but she denied interest in such a run.[79] This decision also came on the heels of the unpopular Swartz prosecution, with other critics describing Ortiz's professional record as marked by a "hands-off leadership style" and "overzealousness."[80]
Early life and education[edit]
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.[5] After graduating from The Saint Agnes School in 1974,[6] Ortiz earned her B.B.A from Adelphi University in 1978, working in her family's gift shop during her years there.[1] Ortiz later earned her J.D. at George Washington University's National Law Center in 1981.[6] In the summer of 1980, Ortiz interned in the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice with Eric Holder, who later became U.S. Attorney General.[7] She also worked on judicial reform in Guatemala with Harvard professor, former Watergate prosecutor, and former deputy attorney general Philip Heymann.[8]
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Recognition[edit]
In 2011, the Boston Globe named her "Bostonian of the Year" for her prosecution of "corruption and white-collar crime".[76] Boston magazine labeled her the third most powerful person in Boston in 2012 for her successful corruption prosecutions of former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Salvatore DiMasi, former state Senator Dianne Wilkerson, and former Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner.[77]
Legal career[edit]
From 1981 to 1983, Ortiz was an attorney with the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division. Ortiz served as Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in two stints: 1983 to 1988 and 1991 to 1994.[1] In 1988, Ortiz went into the private sector with the Braintree law firm Marinelli & Morisi, where she would work until 1989. Ortiz also coordinated the Center for Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991.[1] In 1990, after being appointed by NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, she served on a commission that investigated allegations of sexual harassment against members of the New England Patriots.[9] In 1997, Ortiz became an Assistant U.S. Attorney.[10]
In September 2017, Ortiz joined the Boston-based law firm of Anderson & Kreiger.[11] In December 2019, it was announced she will be made a partner at the firm.[12]
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Thomas Dolan