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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Dora Irizarry |
| Address |
New York, New York , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
January 26, 1955
(69 years)
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| Contributor | nystate63 |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Oct 12, 2016 09:37pm |
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| Info | Judge Dora L. Irizarry currently is in private practice with the firm of Hoguet Newman & Regal, LLP in New York City, specializing in commercial litigation and employment discrimination. She was nominated by Governor George E. Pataki to serve as a Judge of the Court of Claims and confirmed by the New York State Senate in March 1997, the first Hispanic woman to receive such appointment. She also served as an Acting Supreme Court Justice in New York County Supreme Court, Criminal Term. Before her ascension to the Supreme Court bench, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani appointed Dora Irizarry as Judge of the Criminal Court of New York City in December 1995. Prior to her judicial appointment, Judge Irizarry was a prosecutor for sixteen years.
Judge Irizarry�s legal career began in 1979 as an Assistant District Attorney in the Appeals Bureau of the Bronx District Attorney's Office. In 1981, Judge Irizarry was assigned to the Office of the New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor as a line assistant. Less than a year later, she was assigned to that Office's Special Investigations Bureau and prosecuted some of the most important narcotics cases in the city. In 1987, she was appointed Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office and continued to serve with the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
Judge Irizarry also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and as a Special Assistant Deputy Attorney General for the Statewide Organized Crime Task Force.
Judge Irizarry attended the Bronx High School of Science. She obtained her Bachelor's Degree from Yale University where she graduated with honors and distinction, and received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. She is a member of the New York State Bar and the Federal Bars of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Throughout her career, Judge Irizarry has devoted herself to working with the City's youth, frequently participating in activities with a wide range of educational and community organizations. She has appeared on radio and television discussing criminal justice issues, including joint efforts between community groups and law enforcement authorities. She works with a variety of committees and associations of the courts and of the bar to enhance the professionalism of attorneys and promote the equal and fair administration of justice.
Judge Irizarry was President of the Association of Judges of Hispanic Heritage from 1997 to 2002. She is founder and co-chair of the Committee on the Bench and Bar of the Puerto Rican Bar Association. She was appointed by the Chief Administrative Judge of the Courts to the Craco Task Force's Committee on Continuing Legal Education and Committee on the Statement of Client's Rights and Code of Civility, as well as to the Criminal Law Curriculum Development Committees for the Judicial Seminars from 1997 through 2002. Judge Irizarry was an active member of the Jury Implementation Committee, the Employee of the Month Committee, and the Criminal Forum in Kings County Supreme Court.
Judge Irizarry was born in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, and her family migrated to New York City when she was an infant. She has a sixteen-year-old son.
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