In our round up of notable Milton events we made (at least) one glaring omission; the nomination of Milton’s Carmen Ortiz as the first woman and Hispanic US attorney from Massachusetts. She was sworn in yesterday by US Attorney General Eric Holder.

from The Boston Globe

They met 30 years ago when he was a junior lawyer in the US Justice Department in Washington and she was a George Washington University Law School student with a summer internship in his unit.

Today, Eric H. Holder Jr., the nation’s first black attorney general, officially swore in Carmen Milagros Ortiz as the first woman and Hispanic US attorney in Massachusetts. The ceremony was held at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse before hundreds of judges, dignitaries, lawyers and supporters of Ortiz. (Read the full story here.)