Patricia Mafalda DiMango (born May 19, 1953) is a retired American justice of the Supreme Court of Kings County , New York and television personality.

DiMango starred as one of three judges along with Judge Tanya Acker , Judge Adam Levy, and court room bailiff Sonia Montejano on the panel-based reality court show Hot Bench .

Education [ edit ]

DiMango, a Brooklyn native, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Brooklyn College at the City University of New York , as well as a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University Teachers College . She received a Juris Doctor degree from the St. John's University School of Law . ^[1]

Career [ edit ]

DiMango is a former college professor and NYC public school teacher. ^[2] DiMango was appointed as a Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1995. ^[3] She was appointed Acting Justice of the State Supreme Court, 2nd Judicial District in 1998. ^[1]

She was elected as a justice of the Supreme Court of Kings County in 2002. ^[1]

Judge DiMango was one of the three judges on the panel court show Hot Bench , created by Judge Judy Sheindlin , that debuted in September 2014. ^[4]

She is mentioned in a New Yorker article regarding Kalief Browder ; she sent a 16-year-old to spend over three years in Rikers Island awaiting trial. According to the article, DiMango was the presiding judge who released Browder on his 31st court appearance. ^[5] She has also been involved with numerous other high-profile cases, including murders and other crimes committed against children, and hate crimes. ^[2]

She guest starred as a judge on season 13, episode 1 of Blue Bloods .

She is one of three judges, along with Tanya Acker and Adam Levy, on Freevee 's series titled Tribunal Justice , which debuted in June 2023 and is also a creation of Judy Sheindlin .

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