Patricia Ryan (judge)

Patricia Ryan is an Irish judge who has served as President of the Circuit Court since 2019 and a Judge of the Circuit Court since July 2002.

Ryan attended University College Dublin and the King's Inns. She was called to the Irish Bar in 1984.^[1] She acted in cases including those involving personal injuries.^[2][3]

She was appointed a vice-chairperson of the Employment Appeals Tribunal in 1998 and was re-appointed in 2001.^[4]

Ryan was nominated to the Circuit Court in June 2002 and appointed in July 2002.^[5][6] She has presided over criminal law trials involving dangerous driving, manslaughter, fraud, sexual offences, theft, harassment, health and safety law, and drugs offences.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

She sat on the Special Criminal Court.^[15]

She became the President of the Circuit Court in July 2019.^[16][17]

Ryan married Brian Lenihan Jnr in 1987 with whom she had two children. Lenihan died in 2011.^[18][19]