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Immigration Judge DRH

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge DRH's 64.9% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 64.9% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

64.9%
Asylum grant rate
35.1%
Asylum denial rate
188
Asylum decisions

Judge DRH in one line

Judge DRH's asylum grant rate is 64.9% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 188 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

64.9%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
188
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+16.6 pp
vs. national average
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"DRH" 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 DRH's 64.9% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DRH 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)

64.9% 284th of 1696 higher than 1,412 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 %
2015 7 7 0 100.0%
2016 61 46 15 75.4%
2017 53 29 24 54.7%
2018 67 40 27 59.7%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DRH's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DRH's 64.9% 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 DRH are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
MGK 64.9% same 833 FULL New York - Varick Street
RAR 64.9% same 222 LIGHT Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
LCA 64.8% -0.1 pp 403 LIGHT New York - Federal Plaza
YG1 65.1% +0.2 pp 1,222 FULL San Antonio
KLH 65.1% +0.2 pp 665 FULL Fort Snelling
ENA 65.1% +0.2 pp 341 LIGHT Sterling

Same-bench poles at San Francisco

Same-bench spread at San Francisco: Judge DRH runs 64.9% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ SML
95.5%
1,257 merits
Bench low
IJ ASM
4.5%
264 merits

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.

  • IJ ASH · Elizabeth Immigration Court · 188 merits · 35.1% grant
  • IJ AJB · LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · 188 merits · 13.8% grant
  • IJ RFS · Fort Snelling Immigration Court · 187 merits · 50.8% grant
  • IJ KYA · Fort Snelling Immigration Court · 189 merits · 40.2% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge DRH at San Francisco Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge DRH's 188-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DRH at San Francisco Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 64.9%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 188 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge DRH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 64.9%, 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 DRH'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.