Dennise Longo Quiñones

Dennise Noemí Longo Quiñones is a Puerto Rican lawyer and government official serving as the Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico. Longo Quiñones was previously a United States Attorney and assistant federal prosecutor. She was a special assistant to Secretary of Justice José Fuentes Agostini from 1998 to 2000 and the legal advisor of Governor Luis Fortuño from 2009 to 2012.

Early life and education Dennise Noemí Longo Quiñones was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Concepción Quiñones de Longo and raised in Bayamón.

Career From 1993 to 1995, Longo Quiñones worked at the Circuit Court of Maryland for Baltimore City as a judicial officer and assistant prosecutor where she specialized in juvenile delinquency. In 1995, she was admitted to the Bar Association of Puerto Rico and she began working in private practice. In October 2019, the Senate of Puerto Rico confirmed her appointment despite opposition from senate minority members in the Popular Democratic and Puerto Rican Independence parties.