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Judge Elizabeth Donnelly is a fictional character portrayed by Judith Light in the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Guilt (season 3), they were 53 years old.
They appear in 25 episodes out of a total of 551 aired so far

Judge Elizabeth Donnelly

by Judith Light

character

Episodes25

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    Guilt
    episode S3.E18 march 2002
    When one difficulty after another hinder the prosecution of serial pedophile, Roy Barnett, desperate A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot oversteps the bounds of the law, risking both her job, and that of Benson and Stabler, to put this dangerous man behind bars.
  • 8
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    Justice
    episode S3.E19 april 2002
    A teen with no ID found beaten and apparently raped dies in ER. Benson & Stabler spend all day trying to identify the victim, who turns out to be the stepdaughter of a local judge. Further investigation reveals the victim to have become a mother four years ago, and be a pen pal of inmates sent to prison by her stepfather.
  • 8.6
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    Denial
    episode S3.E21 may 2002
    A woman is raped at a party and the attacker is quickly caught but the detectives must still determine why the victim was carrying a finger from a long dead infant.
  • 8.6
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    Competence
    episode S3.E22 may 2002
    The detectives investigate to determine whether a 22-year-old woman with Down syndrome is pregnant as a result of rape, as her mother contends.
  • 8
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    Silence
    episode S3.E23 may 2002
    A murder in a church leads Benson and Stabler to an alleged cover-up involving sexual abuse by a priest.
  • 8.5
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    Chameleon
    episode S4.E1 september 2002
    Benson and Stabler investigate the death of a prostitute but then find their main suspect has in turn been killed. Is the woman who shot him acting in self-defense or is she a murderer?
  • 8.4
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    Juvenile
    episode S4.E9 november 2002
    Two young middle school boys are accused of the rape of a woman.
  • 8.6
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    Damaged
    episode S4.E11 january 2003
    Benson and Stabler are joined by Briscoe and Green when a 6-year-old shooting victim tests positive for a sexually transmitted disease.
  • 8.2
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    Mercy
    episode S4.E14 january 2003
    When the body of a baby girl is found inside a cooler, the detectives need to investigate just who she is and how she got there. They soon learn that the little girl had a genetic disorder known as Tay-Sachs disease, and that her name is Sarah Brown, and she is the only daughter of Andrea and Daniel Brown. When Andrea admits to having killed her daughter, Alex has to put aside her own feelings of sympathy to prosecute Andrea Brown for the murder of her daughter.
  • 7.8
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    Obscene
    episode S6.E3 october 2004
    A young TV star is attacked and the evidence suggests a radio shock jock who may have gone too far.
  • 8.9
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    Conscience
    episode S6.E6 november 2004
    A young boy is kidnapped and a local pedophile becomes the main subject. But what is the truth behind the murder?
  • 8.1
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    Doubt
    episode S6.E8 november 2004
    An art professor's alleged rape accusation devolves into confusing battle of "he said, she said".
  • 7.9
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    Starved
    episode S7.E8 november 2005
    Detective Benson goes undercover at a speed dating event to catch a rapist.
  • 7.8
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    Rockabye
    episode S7.E9 november 2005
    A sex worker is alerted by noise from the neighboring hotel room, and finds there a badly manhandled girl, who later has a miscarriage. Then the girl's father shows up and the case starts getting more complicated every time the cops learn something new about it.
  • 8
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    Infected
    episode S7.E12 january 2006
    When a boy shoots the man he believes killed his mother, it leads to a legal battle over gun control.
  • 8.4
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    Gone
    episode S7.E16 february 2006
    A female student from Montreal goes missing during a class trip to New York City after she spends a night partying with three cocky prep school boys.
  • 8.6
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    Scheherazade
    episode S8.E10 january 2007
    A dying man's confessions to Benson and Stabler reveal secrets about the true identity of his estranged daughter and other, more disturbing secrets.
  • 7.9
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    Haystack
    episode S8.E15 february 2007
    A woman accused of killing her baby commits suicide after being interrogated by an overzealous television reporter. It later turns out that the baby was kidnapped, perhaps by the baby's biological father.
  • 8.2
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    Responsible
    episode S8.E18 april 2007
    The mother of a high school girl is caught having a sexual relationship with one of her daughter's classmates, and she may have supplied alcohol for a high school party where another student died.
  • 8.8
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    Screwed
    episode S8.E22 may 2007
    Fin's nephew, Darius, goes to trial and seems determined to take the unit down with him.
  • 8.3
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    Cold
    episode S9.E19 may 2008
    Detective Lake is accused of killing a police officer, and SVU soon discovers that he has been investigating a 10-year-old cold rape case without anyone's knowledge.
  • 8.7
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    Persona
    episode S10.E8 november 2008
    While trying to stop a case of domestic abuse, Benson crosses paths with a woman who has been a fugitive for over 30 years and claims that she was also a domestic abuse victim.
  • 8.8
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    Zebras
    episode S10.E22 june 2009
    CSU Stuckey's careless error causes a deranged killer to go free on a technicality. Later, more signature killings emerge, and more people connected to the case may be targeted.
  • 8.1
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    Confidential
    episode S11.E15 march 2010
    An attorney confesses that she had knowledge that her client committed a 22-year-old murder that another man was serving time for, but could not come forward because of attorney-client privilege.
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    Behave
    episode S12.E3 september 2010
    A rape victim claims that she has been raped 4 times and harassed across the country by the same man, and the investigation reveals that she may not be his only victim.