WHEN JODY ADAMS began working as a line cook at Seasons in the Bostonian Hotel, it was 1983. The notion of celebrity chefs barely existed. Had you told her she might one day be considered one, she might have stopped working just long enough to laugh. Today, Adams has appeared on the Bravo show “Top Chef Masters,’’ won prestigious awards, and written a cookbook. Some celebrity chefs seem in it for the celebrity. Adams is not among them. She hasn’t spread herself thin with multiple establishments or tried to establish a presence in other cities. Since 1994, Continue reading >>>

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, right, watches as the new U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz is sworn in during her installation ceremony at the federal courthouse in Boston Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. (AP) If you know Boston then you know something about the name Ortiz. We’re not talking about Red Sox slugger Big Papi though. We’re talking about the chief federal law enforcement officer in Massachusetts: U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz. Appointed by President Obama in 2009, Ortiz is Boston’s first female and first Hispanic U.S. attorney. Ortiz was in the news Continue reading >>>

Carmen M. Ortiz, the first woman and the first Hispanic to be United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, has just been honored by The Boston Globe. Carmen Ortiz (DOJ) “She has sent an unambiguous message to the Massachusetts political class to behave, ramped up prosecutions of white-collar crime, and built a new civil rights enforcement team,” The Globe said. “For all of these reasons, she is our Bostonian of the Year.” Ortiz, who turns 56 on Continue reading >>>

U.S. Atty. Carmen Ortiz By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney who made headlines as the lead prosecutor in  the case of the infamous crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger and his long-time girlfriend Catherine Greig, has been named “Bostonian of the Year,” by the Boston Globe Magazine, the publication announced in a press release on Friday. The Globe, which will feature a profile of Ortiz in a special Sunday edition of the paper, called the Attorney “the fighter” due to her “long history prosecuting political corruption cases,” according to the release, Continue reading >>>

January 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment  The former executive director of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute [BUEI] has been named runner-up Bostonian of the Year by one of that Massachusetts city’s leading newspapers. Nancy Brennan, who helmed the East Broadway maritime facility in the late 1990s, has been executive director of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway since 2005. “She was charged not just with making a park out of the mile-and-a-half ribbon of bald urban land left by the dismantling of the Central Artery,” reports the “Boston Continue reading >>>

IN PROMISING TO DONATE most of their considerable fortune to charity, Bill and Joyce Cummings say they are trying to set an example for the country’s wealthiest 1 percent. The Winchester couple, having made hundreds of millions in commercial real estate in Eastern Massachusetts, signed on in May to the Giving Pledge campaign, started by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates. By taking the pledge, America’s richest families publicly declare that they will give away more than half of their money during their lifetimes or after death; the Cummingses say they privately Continue reading >>>

 WHEN SHE WAS HIRED IN 2005 as executive director of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, Nancy Brennan was charged not just with making a park out of the mile-and-a-half ribbon of bald urban land left by the dismantling of the Central Artery. She was also asked to create an artery for the city, one that would energize Boston’s waterfront and downtown neighborhoods and tie the two together. Extravagant plans – for a YMCA, an indoor arboretum, an arts and culture center – were weighed but all collapsed. Brennan had been tasked by the nonprofit Greenway Continue reading >>>

WHEN INDIANAPOLIS COLTS CENTER JEFF SATURDAY hugged Patriots owner Robert Kraft (above), the pair provided an unexpected yet perfect image of National Football League labor peace after a 136-day lockout. Saturday credited Kraft with helping “save football.” The embrace broadcast around the sports world also honored the sacrifices Kraft made, negotiating a deal while his wife, Myra, was dying of cancer. The big hug and the final deal came on July 25, 2011, five days after her death. “To think that I could bond with the guy who’s the center for one of our biggest Continue reading >>>

The Boston Globe Magazine announced today that it has selected US Attorney Carmen Ortiz as “Bostonian of the Year” for 2011. She will be featured in a special edition of The Sunday Globe magazine on January 1, and online at www.bostonglobe.com/magazine and boston.com. The magazine will also include profiles of several other Bostonians notable for their achievements in 2011. Ms. Ortiz most Continue reading >>>