caption predecessor birth_name birth_place party office birth_date term_start appointer spouse image article_title name alma_mater
official district of massachusetts -lrb- 2009 -rrb- portrait of us attorney carmen m. ortiz , michael sullivan carmen milagros ortiz new york city , new york , u.s. democratic u.s. attorney for the district of massachusetts 5 january 1956 november 6 , 2009 barack obama thomas dolan carmen m. ortiz.jpg carmen ortiz
 carmen ortiz adelphi university george washington university
carmen ortiz

carmen milagros ortiz -lrb- born january 5 , 1956 -rrb- is the 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 .
