JUSTICE IRA B. WARSHAWSKY started his career in public service as a Legal Aid attorney in 1970 when he was Assistant Chief of the Family Court branch in Queens County. He served as a Nassau County Assistant District Attorney in the District and County Court trial bureaus from 1972 to 1974. Following these four years of prosecution and defense work he became a Law Secretary, serving Judges of the New York State Court of Claims and County Court of Nassau County. In 1987 he was elected to the District Court and served there until 1997. He was elected in 1997 to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, where he has presided in a Dedicated Matrimonial Part, a Differentiated Case Management Part and now sits in one of the county's three Dedicated Commercial Parts.

The Judge received his undergraduate education at Rutgers University (B.A., 1966) and his J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School (1969). He has been active in numerous legal, educational and charitable organizations during his career. He is a former director of the Nassau County Bar Association, has served as chair of its Community Relations and Public Education Committee and is a former dean of the Nassau Academy of Law. He is a past president of the Nassau County District Court Judges' Association and the Former Assistant District Attorneys Association of Nassau County. Judge Warshawsky is also a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Jewish Lawyers Association and the Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court. He was recently elected Vice President of the American College of Business Court Judges.

The Judge has served as a lecturer in various areas of commercial, civil and criminal law, most recently in the area of e-discovery and its ethical problems. He frequently lectures for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) at Hofstra and Widener Law Schools. The Judge currently serves as a contributing editor of the Benchbook for Trial Judges published by the Supreme Court Justices Association of the State of New York. He has served as a member of the Office of Court Administration's Civil Curriculum Committee.

In 1996 the Judge was the recipient of EAC's Humanitarian of the Year Award, in 1997 he received the Nassau County Bar Association President's Award, in 2000 he received the Former Assistant District Attorneys Association's Frank A. Gulotta Criminal Justice Award and in 2004, the Nassau Bar Association's Director's Award.