Dora L. Irizarry
Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2004 and confirmed by voice vote, Dora L. Irizarry is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She earned a law degree from Columbia Law School in 1979. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓
- Born
- 1955 · age 71
- Appointed by
- George W. Bush, 2004
- Confirmed
- by voice vote
- Education
- Yale 1976 · Columbia Law School 1979
- Succeeded
- Reena Raggi
- Succeeded by
- Nina Rauh Morrison
Federal judicial service
| Year | Court | Appointed by | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Eastern District of New York succeeded Reena Raggi | G.W. Bush (R) | Voice vote |
Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.
Confirmation vote
Voice vote
The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.
Education
| Yale University | B.A. | 1976 |
| Columbia Law School | J.D. | 1979 |
Judicial Record
Caseload & case types
In our data, Irizarry was assigned 3,967 district-court cases (1990–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 196 days across 3,800 closed cases.
Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.
On appeal
Of 154 of Irizarry’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 119 were affirmed, 15 reversed or vacated, and 20 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.
In our data, Irizarry authored 75 published opinions for the court (2004–2011). Most cited: Spielberg v. Barnhart (67 citations).
A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.
Recent & notable rulings
| Year | Case | Citation | Cited |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Spielberg v. Barnhart | 367 F. Supp. 2d 276 | 67 |
| 2010 | Labarbera v. ASTC LABORATORIES INC. | 752 F. Supp. 2d 263 | 66 |
| 2008 | Laroque v. Domino's Pizza, LLC | 557 F. Supp. 2d 346 | 50 |
| 2008 | Watts v. Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. | 579 F. Supp. 2d 334 | 33 |
| 2007 | Patsy's Italian Restaurant, Inc. v. Banas | 508 F. Supp. 2d 194 | 27 |
| 2005 | Trikas v. Universal Card Services Corp. | 351 F. Supp. 2d 37 | 25 |
| 2008 | Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc. v. Executive Protection One Security Service, LLC | 553 F. Supp. 2d 201 | 24 |
| 2008 | Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. v. Aini | 540 F. Supp. 2d 374 | 24 |
| 2006 | Redhead v. Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists | 440 F. Supp. 2d 211 | 23 |
| 2009 | Saint-Guillen v. United States | 657 F. Supp. 2d 376 | 21 |
| 2010 | Doona v. OneSource Holdings, Inc. | 680 F. Supp. 2d 394 | 20 |
| 2005 | Cassidy v. Scoppetta | 365 F. Supp. 2d 283 | 19 |
| 2006 | Green v. City of New York | 438 F. Supp. 2d 111 | 18 |
| 2007 | Hernandez v. La Cazuela De Mari Restaurant, Inc. | 538 F. Supp. 2d 528 | 15 |
| 2007 | Bailey v. New York City Board of Education | 536 F. Supp. 2d 259 | 13 |
Showing the 15 most-cited of 75 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.
Questions & answers
- Who appointed Dora L. Irizarry?
- President George W. Bush appointed Dora L. Irizarry to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in 2004.
- Was Dora L. Irizarry appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
- Dora L. Irizarry was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
- What was Dora L. Irizarry's confirmation vote?
- Dora L. Irizarry was confirmed by voice vote on June 24, 2004. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
- Which court is Dora L. Irizarry on?
- Dora L. Irizarry is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Sources
Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.
- FJC Biographical Directory
- Wikidata
- Portrait: Unknown authorUnknown author (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
- CourtListener bulk data (Free Law Project): authored opinions & citation counts
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22 years on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).