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Dora Irizarry was born on 26 January, 1955 in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, is a Puerto Rican judge (born 1955). Discover Dora Irizarry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 26 January, 1955
Birthday 26 January
Birthplace San Sebastian, Puerto Rico
Nationality United States

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1955

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

Irizarry was born on January 26, 1955, in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, and was raised in the Bronx in New York City.

1976

She attended the Bronx High School of Science and went on to graduate from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 and Columbia Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1979.

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 in which she grew up, 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.

1981

She was an assistant district attorney of the 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.

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.

2002

In 2002, Irizarry resigned from her judgeship to become the Republican nominee for Attorney General of New York, challenging Democratic incumbent Eliot Spitzer.

She was the first Latina to seek statewide office in New York State.

Irizarry lost the race by a 66%-30% margin, but ran a strong race in upstate New York.

After the election, she entered private practice with the firm of Hoguet, Newman & Regal in Manhattan.

2003

In 2003, Irizarry was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

2004

Although the American Bar Association determined her to be "not qualified," she was confirmed by the Senate on June 24, 2004, and received her commission on July 8, 2004, thereby becoming the first Hispanic judge in the Eastern District.

2010

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, guilty of planning to blow up New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport by exploding fuel tanks and pipelines underneath it.

2011

She sentenced Defreitas to life in prison on February 17, 2011.

One month previously, she had sentenced Abdel Nur, a co-defendant who pleaded guilty, to 15 years, and the following year, Kareem Ibrahim, who was tried separately, was also found guilty and given a life sentence by Judge Irizarry.

2016

She became Chief Judge of the Eastern District on April 15, 2016.

Her judicial seat is in Brooklyn.

2020

She assumed senior status on January 26, 2020.