Immigration judge · Chicago Immigration Court
Immigration Judge JD
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 39 merits decisions make Judge JD a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 48.7% (roughly in line with the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 48.7%
- Asylum grant rate
- 51.3%
- Asylum denial rate
- 39
- Asylum decisions
Judge JD in one line
Judge JD's asylum grant rate is 48.7% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 39 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 48.7%
- Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
- 39
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- +0.4 pp
- vs. national average
"JD" 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.
This judge's merits outcome mix
39merits decisions FY2015–2025
Judge JD 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)
48.7% 645th of 1696 higher than 1,051 of 1,696 judges
Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more judges. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 21 | 15 | 6 | 71.4% |
| 2020 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 22.2% |
IJ rate-band chamber
Anonymized codes nearest Judge JD's grant rate
EOIR publishes immigration judges as three-letter codes, not names. This chamber lists nationwide IJs whose asylum grant rate is closest to 48.7% (ABS gap), with a merits-volume stamp so volume is visible without a second identical card grid.
1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge JD are shown here.
Same-bench poles at Chicago
Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 37 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge JD is at 48.7%.
Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge JD at Chicago Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Judge JD's 39-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.
DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JD at Chicago Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 39. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 39 decisions FY2015–2025.
Judge JD's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 39, 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 JD'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.