Connie Rubirosa
Consuela Rubirosa is a fictional character, portrayed by Alana de la Garza, who joined the cast of long-running NBC drama series Law & Order during the 17th-season premiere episode "Fame". She is the only second-chair assistant district attorney (ADA) of Law & Order to have appeared in four complete seasons and the last ADA on the show before its eventual cancellation in 2010. She later appeared on Law & Order: LA as a series regular until the show's cancellation in May 2011. In January 2014, she appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where she became an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. Character overview Career history After graduating Swarthmore College and spending a year working as a kindergarten teacher, Rubirosa joined the Manhattan District Attorney's office in 2004. Shortly thereafter, Rubirosa had a brief sexual relationship with her supervisor, Marcus Woll. She is promoted to assistant district attorney in 2007 under District Attorney Arthur Branch, and second-chairs for Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy. With McCoy's election to district attorney (as of the 18th season), Rubirosa is assigned to newly promoted Executive Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter. During the early months of this transition, she is sometimes made to be the unwilling mediator when her two superiors have disagreements regarding law. After leaving the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Rubirosa goes on to serve as a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles, following the resignations of Evelyn Price and Lauren Stanton. In this capacity, she works alongside Joe Dekker. Rubirosa returned to the Law & Order franchise as a federal prosecutor in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season-15 episode "Jersey Breakdown". In this episode, which aired on January 22, 2014, she heads a joint task force on underaged sex trafficking. Family She has stated that her father, a doctor, was a Spanish immigrant whose medical degree was not recognized in the United States and who thus had to work as a nurse for 10 years. Later in the case, she passionately opposes a legal strategy proposed by McCoy that would have detrimentally affected other illegal immigrants who worked for the same contractor, but were not part of the crime. She has also told McCoy that she had a sister who had previously been in an abusive relationship. She also has a brother. Her brother is married and has at least two children. His wife almost miscarries their first child in or before 2001. Her mother is Mexican, as she was a descendant of Juan Cortina. Her parents divorced and her mother eventually remarried. Her stepfather died in 2007. In 2011, she moved to Los Angeles to take care of her mother, who had suffered a stroke. Personality Rubirosa is a strong advocate of women's rights. In one episode, she says she disagrees with the politics of a conservative author who made "Ann Coulter look like Mary Poppins". In another, however, she refuses to give credit to a female defense attorney's unjustified feminist trial