Los Angeles (NLA)
NLA
Aggregated asylum decision statistics across all immigration judges recorded at the Los Angeles (NLA), based on public EOIR case data.
Lifetime grant rate
19.8%
All recorded asylum decisions
12-month grant rate
15.8%
Most recent 12 months of data
Lifetime decisions
14,158
Total grants and denials on record
Judges
58
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 β the same methodology over a shorter window, which is why the two views can show different percentages.
Court lifetime grant rate
19.8%All recorded asylum decisions
Monthly grant rate β trailing 12 months
Judges
Aina, Nathan N.
31.1%700 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Amaya, Roberto
9.6%135 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Anderson, David C.
7.5%187 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Bakke Varzandeh, Joyce
25.0%8 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Bank, Ira
20.0%5 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Bass, Lori R.
0.0%3 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Bither, Christine A.
0.0%1 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Bjornerud, Maria
0.0%1 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Brown, Kevin
0.0%5 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Burke, Brian
0.0%9 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Burke, David
6.3%16 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Calcador, Kerri
0.0%7 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Carroll-Tipton, Andrea
60.0%10 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Chan, Matthew
0.0%151 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: 0.0%
Costa, Philip J.
0.0%3 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Coughlon, Robert E.
0.0%4 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Dorfman, Arlene E.
19.2%26 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Dunkel-Bradley, Dorothy
0.0%3 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Everett, Timothy R.
34.2%494 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: 32.1%
Giattina, Anthony T.
0.0%1 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Gordon, Louis A.
100.0%1 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Ho, Anna
0.0%11 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Hong, Andrea
19.9%637 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: 18.9%
Hong, J. Traci
50.0%2 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Hope, Karen
8.6%151 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Horton, Monte J.
0.0%1 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Hsu, Lily C
23.9%1,007 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Jasso, Jaime
17.4%201 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: 16.7%
Kim, Peter A.
50.1%601 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: 16.0%
Latimore, Jan D.
0.0%1 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Laurent, Scott
28.6%21 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Lee, Amy T.
13.3%15 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Lee, Wilbur
0.0%11 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Left, James M.
19.6%1,524 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: 47.4%
Liebmann, Beth
80.0%5 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Little, Monica M.
7.7%13 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Maury, Carlos E.
24.9%273 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Medved, Paul N.
9.9%213 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Miller, Nancy E.
16.4%348 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: 4.2%
Munoz, Lorraine J.
2.8%720 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
NARE, JAKE
47.5%394 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Naselow-Nahas, Tara
1.9%586 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Neumeister, William David
16.7%12 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
O'Connor, Lee
0.0%4 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
O'Sullivan, Maureen
11.1%9 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Palomino, Jacinto
0.0%25 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Parchert, Brett M.
0.0%9 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Perry, Anne Kristina
100.0%1 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Peters, Rose
0.0%6 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Piepmeier, Kristin
4.5%516 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Prieto, Francisco R.
100.0%1 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Riley, Kevin W.
7.5%1,149 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: 0.0%
Rooyani, Rodin
0.0%2 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Ruane, Rachel Ann
7.9%252 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: 4.1%
Ryan, Kyle J.
35.7%336 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: 15.9%
Sameit, Mark
0.0%14 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Santos-Garcia, Sandra J.
0.0%8 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Scala, Theresa
0.0%6 cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Sholomson, Stephen L.
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Siebert, Andrea
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Sitgraves, D.D.
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Skomra, Taiyyeba S.
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Stancill, Christine E
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Tabaddor, A. Ashley
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Travieso, Frank M.
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Travieso, Frank M.
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Travieso, Frank M.
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Vahid-Tehrani, Gita
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Virchis, Bridget
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Virchis, Bridget
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Virchis, Bridget
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Virchis, Bridget
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Walker, Nathaniel B.
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Walsh, John F.
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Yuen-Tomlin, Minnie
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Yuen-Tomlin, Minnie
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β
Yuen-Tomlin, Minnie
ββ cases Β· 12-month grant rate: β