Dora Irizarry
| Dora L. Irizarry | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
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Assumed office April 3, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Carol Bagley Amon |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
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Assumed office July 8, 2004 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Reena Raggi |
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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.
Irizarry 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. 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.
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 in the Bronx County District Attorney's Office from 1981 to 1987 and then in the New York County District Attorney's Office from 1987 to 1995. She then became a judge on the New York City Criminal Court from 1995 to 1997, and an Acting Justice on the Court of Claims in Kings County from 1997 to 1998, before serving in the same position in Manhattan from 1998 to 2002.
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