2020
HON. DORIS
GONZALEZ
ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
BRONX COUNTY 12TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP AWARD
Justice Doris Gonzalez has been serving as Administrative Justice of the Supreme Court of
the Bronx County 12th Judicial District. She was born in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronx.
Both of her parents were born in Puerto Rico, and met in New York.
Justice Gonzalez received her Juris Doctor from CUNY Law School at Queens College.
In 1985 she started her legal career in the insurance industry. After 15 years of practice in
the private sector, she went to work for a Supreme Court Judge in the Appellate Term 1st
Department and then in Supreme Court Civil Division, Bronx County.
She served as a member of her local Community Board, the Neighborhood Advisory Board,
and the Community Action Board. She was elected as a Civil Court Judge in Bronx County, in
2006. Later, she was appointed by Judge Pfau as Acting Supreme Court Justice. She sat in
Supreme Criminal Bronx County for three years; Supreme Court Matrimonial Division for three
years before her current position.
She served as President of the Latino Judges Association, Chair of the Gender Fairness
Committee, the “women of distinction” subcommittee, the Chair of the Committee to
Encourage Judicial Service and appointed to the Judicial Advisory Council and sat on the
facilities and technology committee.
She remains on multiple committees such as the Gender Fairness committee, Foreclosure
Task Force of the New York City Bar, Special Committee to Encourage Judicial Service, and
many others.
Justice Gonzalez is a single mother to a daughter Milta, who is 21 years old, a volleyball
player and attending Monroe College.
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