The great and the good in the Bradford district have been praised for their work in the Queen’s New Year Honours list, revealed today.

Michele Sutton, principal of Bradford College, is to get an OBE for services to further education and to community relations.

A recent Ofsted report published in October described Mrs Sutton as an “inspirational” leader.

She was formerly principal and chief executive of Hopwood Hall College in Rochdale until she left to assume both these roles at Bradford College in 2004.

In a career dedicated to education, she has also sat on local and national committees including learning partnerships, a regional quality improvement panel, the National Ecumenical Agency in Further Educa-tion and the Association of Colleges.

Salima Hafejee, former director of the Bradford Youth Development Partner-ship and member of the Youth Justice Board, has been awarded an OBE for her services to community relations in West Yorkshire.

She left her post with the partnership in August 2008 and now works as an independent consultant supporting voluntary and statutory youth services.

She is a magistrate in Bradford, an independent trustee of the National Academy of Parenting Practitioners and chairman of the region’s National Empowerment Partnership.

Ebrahim Dockrat, 47, has got an OBE for services to the community in West Yorkshire. He is chairman of Bradford’s Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel, an independent body which looks at the way cases with racial, ageist and homophobic elements are handled by the Crown Prosecution Service.

In other roles, he is ESF contracts director for the Learning Skills Council in Yorkshire and the Humber, a member of the Skills Fund Board and a member of the Indian Muslim Welfare Society based in Batley.

He said: “I feel humbled.”

A judge and former Stipen-diary Magistrate of Brad-ford has earned a CBE.

Judge Geoffrey Harvey Kamil, a circuit judge, called for the Dangerous Dogs Act to be toughened in 2006 and backed a Telegraph & Argus campaign for all dogs to be registered to help establish a register for dangerous dogs.

Chairman of Bradford Magistrates Mary Carroll worked with Judge Kamil when he was a Magistrate in the early 1990s. She said: “He was an asset to the bench and very popular with the magistrates. He stands for no nonsense.”

Former leader of the Independent Group on Craven District Council Carl Lis has been given an OBE for services to the community. He was chairman of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority until July 2008, and in September was appointed chairman of the Authority’s planning committee.