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Immigration Judge DDR

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 855 merits decisions place Judge DDR among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 855 decisions FY2015–2025 (#262 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

60.0%
Asylum grant rate
40.0%
Asylum denial rate
855
Asylum decisions

Judge DDR in one line

Judge DDR's asylum grant rate is 60.0% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 855 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

60.0%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
855
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+11.7 pp
vs. national average
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"DDR" is the anonymized judge code DOJ's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) assigns in its public case-data release, not a verified public identity. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset, so this code should not be read as confirming, or attributing these statistics to, any specific named individual. See our methodology for detail.

Statistical data only. Judge DDR's 60.0% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DDR vs all tracked IJs by asylum grant rate

Where this judge's FY2015–2025 asylum grant rate sits among every tracked immigration judge (a leniency measure, not a quality ranking)

60% 374th of 1696 higher than 1,322 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Year-by-Year Outcomes

Historical asylum merits decisions for this anonymized EOIR judge code. Annual rows can be thin, and are not a forecast of any future case.

FY Decisions Grants Denials Grant %
2016 1 1 0 100.0%
2020 3 2 1 66.7%
2021 42 27 15 64.3%
2022 214 95 119 44.4%
2023 159 101 58 63.5%
2024 105 61 44 58.1%
2025 331 226 105 68.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DDR's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DDR's 60.0% grant rate, an upper-third corpus rate, with THIN/LIGHT/FULL/HEAVY merits stamps on each peer row.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge DDR are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
EJT 60.0% same 912 FULL San Antonio
JD1 60.0% same 615 FULL Los Angeles - West
JDR 60.0% same 125 LIGHT San Juan
AMO 60.0% same 90 THIN Chelmsford
MBH 60.0% same 25 THIN Boston
DB 60.1% +0.1 pp 1,101 FULL Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard

Same-bench poles at Memphis

Same-bench spread at Memphis: Judge DDR runs 60.0% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other courts' busiest IJ codes by merits volume, a caseload peer set orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) chamber above.

  • IJ BTR · Otero Immigration Court · 854 merits · 57.5% grant
  • IJ GET · Boston Immigration Court · 854 merits · 50.0% grant
  • IJ LJF · Santa Ana Immigration Court · 856 merits · 46.7% grant
  • IJ KWS · San Francisco Immigration Court · 856 merits · 76.8% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code DDR: 855 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DDR at Memphis Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 855. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 855 decisions FY2015–2025 (#262 of 1.7K).

Judge DDR's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 855, not hand-typed editorial values. justice.gov/eoir/foia-library-0

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Judge DDR's grant/denial/merits figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.