Immigration judge · Santa Ana Immigration Court

Immigration Judge WMM

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge WMM's 77.7% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 77.7% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

77.7%
Asylum grant rate
22.3%
Asylum denial rate
265
Asylum decisions

Judge WMM in one line

Judge WMM's asylum grant rate is 77.7% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 265 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

77.7%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
265
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+29.4 pp
vs. national average
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"WMM" 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 WMM's 77.7% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge WMM 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)

77.7% 132nd of 1696 higher than 1,564 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 %
2022 29 22 7 75.9%
2023 181 149 32 82.3%
2024 55 35 20 63.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge WMM's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge WMM's 77.7% 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 WMM are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
CPE 77.7% same 103 LIGHT San Francisco
DK1 77.8% +0.1 pp 752 FULL Hyattsville
ETK 77.8% +0.1 pp 207 LIGHT Annandale
LCF 77.5% -0.2 pp 772 FULL San Francisco
JSI 77.9% +0.2 pp 149 LIGHT Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
AMO 77.5% -0.2 pp 71 THIN Chelmsford

Same-bench poles at Santa Ana

Same-bench spread at Santa Ana: Judge WMM runs 77.7% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 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 EKN · Chicago Immigration Court · 265 merits · 70.9% grant
  • IJ ARP · Annandale Immigration Court (Annex) · 265 merits · 55.5% grant
  • IJ HRP · Annandale Immigration Court · 265 merits · 47.5% grant
  • IJ JPJ · Eloy Immigration Court · 266 merits · 58.3% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge WMM at Santa Ana Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ WMM at Santa Ana Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 77.7%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 265 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge WMM's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 77.7%, 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 WMM'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.