Houston (HOU)

HOU

Aggregated asylum decision statistics across all immigration judges recorded at the Houston (HOU), based on public EOIR case data.

Lifetime grant rate

10.4%

All recorded asylum decisions

12-month grant rate

3.0%

Most recent 12 months of data

Lifetime decisions

29,489

Total grants and denials on record

Judges

Judges appearing in this court's data

Data through

2026-07

Latest month in the source data

Lifetime figures cover every recorded asylum decision. The 12-month figures cover only the most recent year of data — the same methodology over a shorter window, which is why the two views can show different percentages.

Court lifetime grant rate

10.4%

0%25%50%75%100%

All recorded asylum decisions

Monthly grant rate — trailing 12 months

Judges

Alexander, Scott G.

0.0%

1 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Araneta, Michelle

0.0%

2 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Archuleta, Judy

0.0%

7 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Ayze, Thomas

0.0%

5 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Bales, Eric C.

0.0%

27 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Bashore, Jacob D.

0.0%

18 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Behne, Audra R.

0.0%

2 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Benton, Jimmie Lee

23.2%

142 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Bhagat, Nimmo

11.3%

3,817 cases · 12-month grant rate: 2.1%

Brisack, Chris A.

16.0%

832 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Brown, Robert

30.4%

276 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Brown, Sam, IV

1.4%

1,743 cases · 12-month grant rate: 0.0%

Burgess, Abraham L.

0.0%

15 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Carle, John B.

0.0%

5 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Castrolugo, Elisa

0.0%

57 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Duck, John A., JR.

100.0%

2 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Eller, Donald R., JR.

0.0%

28 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Ellison, Sarah M.

0.0%

15 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Endelman, Gary E.

10.6%

3,990 cases · 12-month grant rate: 8.0%

FENELON, ZAHRA JIVANI

6.2%

353 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Freeman, D'Anna H.

12.5%

104 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Gemoets, Marcos

5.6%

1,404 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Ghartey, Victoria L.

0.0%

3 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Gorman, Stephanie

8.4%

510 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Greenbaum, Scott V.

0.0%

116 cases · 12-month grant rate: 0.0%

Greenstein, Saul E.

9.3%

1,385 cases · 12-month grant rate: 0.0%

Guidry, Monica Thompson

3.0%

203 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Hansen, Katherine L.

0.0%

4 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Harris, Monique

3.7%

1,421 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Hart, Brandon L.

0.0%

45 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Hartnett, Sarah

43.5%

108 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Hladylowycz, Roxanne C.

0.0%

1 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Hom, Howard C.

0.0%

3 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Howard, Justin W.

0.0%

2 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Hsu, Lily C

0.0%

9 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Hughes, Erica

3.7%

188 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Imbacuan, Bruce

4.2%

118 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Jackler, Megan R.

0.0%

1 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Jacobs, Richard C.

7.9%

38 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Jamadar, Richard A.

7.0%

686 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

John-Baptiste, Allan

15.4%

13 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Kandler, Edward R.

10.0%

10 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Khan, Anwer A.

6.6%

1,337 cases · 12-month grant rate: 3.2%

Law, Philip S.

19.4%

973 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Leonard, Joseph T.

0.0%

29 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Lucic, Nicholas B.

0.0%

2 cases · 12-month grant rate: 0.0%

Luis, Lisa

7.5%

187 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Mahasa, Zakia

0.0%

5 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Martinez-Esquivel, Lourdes

14.3%

7 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Martinez, Hugo R.

0.0%

25 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

May, Jennifer A.

4.5%

132 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Mcguirk, Erica J.

1.5%

196 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Midgley, Ian D.

0.0%

4 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Muneer, Revathi

0.0%

77 cases · 12-month grant rate: 0.0%

Mwangi, Francis

0.0%

1 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Nguyen, Bao Q.

16.8%

969 cases · 12-month grant rate: 7.1%

Nugent, James A.

100.0%

2 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Onyewuchi, Morris I.

0.0%

2 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Osborn, Joshua D.

17.9%

246 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Parikh, Kiera

0.0%

231 cases · 12-month grant rate: 0.0%

Peterson, William C.

20.8%

283 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Picos, Georgina M.

8.6%

1,730 cases · 12-month grant rate: 6.5%

Pleters, Michael S.

0.0%

5 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Polivka, James F.

0.0%

1 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Powell, Robert L.

0.0%

2 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Rahill, Michael F.

50.0%

4 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Ramos, Maritza S.

8.1%

940 cases · 12-month grant rate: 1.6%

Recio, Irene M.

0.0%

10 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Rose, Howard

0.0%

12 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Sapp, Billy J.

0.0%

1 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Savage, Patrick S.

0.0%

4 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Schools, Shelly W.

0.0%

7 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Sharp, Noelle

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