Dora Irizarry

Dora L. Irizarry


Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Incumbent
Assumed office April 3, 2016
Preceded by	Carol Bagley Amon
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Incumbent
Assumed office July 8, 2004
Appointed by	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Reena Raggi
Personal details
Born	(1955-01-26) January 26, 1955 San Sebastian, Puerto Rico
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Yale University Columbia Law School

Dora Lizette Irizarry (born January 26, 1955) is the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Early life and education

She was born in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico and was raised in the Bronx in New York City. She attended the Bronx High School of Science and went on to graduate from Yale University in 1976 and Columbia University Law School in 1979.^[1] After law school, she worked as an assistant district attorney in the Bronx and Manhattan from 1979 to 1981. Irizarry said she wanted to improve the quality of life in the neighborhoods she grew up in, and specialized in drug and narcotics cases.

New York state court judge

She was appointed a New York City Criminal Court Judge by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and then a Judge of the New York Court of Claims by Governor George Pataki. As a Court of Claims Judge she served as an Acting Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, sitting in Brooklyn and Manhattan. She was the first Hispanic woman to serve as a state judge in New York.

She was an Assistant district attorney of Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Bronx County District Attorney's Office, New York from 1981 to 1987. She was an Assistant district attorney of Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York County District Attorney's Office, New York from 1987 to 1995. She was a judge on the New York City Criminal Court from 1995 to 1997. She was an Acting justice, Kings County Supreme Court, Court of Claims, New York from 1997 to 1998. She was an Acting justice, New York County Supreme Court, Court of Claims, New York from 1998 to 2002.

2002 New York Republican ticket

In 2002, Irizarry resigned from her judgeship to become the Republican nominee for Attorney General of New York, challenging Democratic incumbent Eliot Spitzer. She lost the race by a 66%-30% margin, but ran a strong race in upstate New York. Irizarry is the first Latina to seek statewide office in New York State. After the election, she entered into private practice with the firm of Hoguet, Newman & Regal, LLP in Manhattan.^[1]

Federal judicial service

In 2003, Irizarry was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as a district court judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 24, 2004 and received her commission on July 8, 2004 thus becoming the first Hispanic judge in the Eastern District.^[1] She sits in Brooklyn.

Notable cases

On December 15, 2010, Judge Irizarry sentenced Islamist militant and engineer Abdul Kadir, 58, of Guyana, to life in prison after the jury found him and co-defendant Russel Defreitas, a U.S. citizen born in Guyana who awaits sentencing, guilty of planning to bomb New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

2002 NYS Republican ticket

Governor: George Pataki
Lieutenant Governor: Mary Donohue
Comptroller: John Faso
Attorney General: Dora Irizarry

References

1 2 3 A Conversation with the Honorable Dora L. Irizarry, District Judge Accessed 2009-06-29

External links

Dora Irizarry at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Government offices
Preceded by Dennis Vacco	Republican Nominee for New York State Attorney General 2002	Succeeded by Jeanine Pirro
Legal offices
Preceded by Carol Bagley Amon	Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York 2016–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Reena Raggi	Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York 2004–present	Incumbent

Currently active district judges of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Connecticut	Hall Chatigny Thompson Underhill Bryant Shea Meyer Bolden

E. New York	Irizarry Amon Bianco Vitaliano Cogan Mauskopf Matsumoto Kuntz Brodie Chen Azrack Donnelly Hall 2 seats vacant

N. New York	Suddaby Hurd D'Agostino Sannes 1 seat vacant

S. New York	Preska Koeltl McMahon Pauley Daniels Swain Castel Karas Sullivan Seibel Gardephe Briccetti Oetken Engelmayer Forrest Nathan Ramos Carter Furman Abrams Schofield Failla Torres Roman Broderick Woods Caproni 1 seat vacant

W. New York	Geraci Wolford Vilardo 1 seat vacant

Vermont	Reiss Crawford

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.