Nina Cassady, and Alana De La Garza, the new assistant DA, Connie Rubirosa. Govich plays the first-ever female detective on the show (her boss, the mostly office-bound Lt. Van Buren, played by S.

That Connie Rubirosa sure gets around. Because whereas Connie in her previous incarnations was an ADA, when she resurfaces in the SVU world, she is now back in New York as a federal prosecutor ...