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Dora Irizarry is a Puerto Rican judge who was born on 26 January, 1955 in Puerto Rico. She is currently serving in New York, US. She is 65 years old. Dora Irizarry is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs around 130 lbs. She has black hair and brown eyes. Dora Irizarry is currently single and has no known dating history. Dora Irizarry comes from a large family. She has two brothers and two sisters. Dora Irizarry has had a long and successful career as a judge. She was appointed to the New York Supreme Court in 2004 and has since served as a judge in various courts in the state. Dora Irizarry has an estimated net worth of $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her career as a judge. She also earns a salary of $174,000 per year. Dora Irizarry is an active philanthropist and has donated to various charities and organizations. She is also a member of the Puerto Rican Bar Association.

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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. 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.

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. 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. She became Chief Judge of the Eastern District on April 15, 2016. Her judicial seat is in Brooklyn. She assumed senior status on January 26, 2020

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.

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. 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.

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 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 and Columbia Law School with a Juris Doctor 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.

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