Sacramento (SMO)

SMO

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

Lifetime grant rate

69.3%

All recorded asylum decisions

12-month grant rate

44.3%

Most recent 12 months of data

Lifetime decisions

8,835

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

69.3%

0%25%50%75%100%

All recorded asylum decisions

Monthly grant rate — trailing 12 months

Judges

Badrinath, Vikram

64.7%

1,295 cases · 12-month grant rate: 43.5%

Baker, Glen R.

0.0%

4 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Barrett, Patrick D.

100.0%

4 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Daugherty, Daniel J.

8.1%

86 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Daw, Alison E

86.7%

573 cases · 12-month grant rate: 100.0%

Depowell, Bryan E.

100.0%

3 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Dinsdale, Justin

100.0%

3 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Gastley, Harry L.

17.8%

73 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Geisse, Loreto

81.4%

819 cases · 12-month grant rate: 72.4%

Grande, Guy G.

33.3%

3 cases · 12-month grant rate: 33.3%

Halperin, Ravit R.

10.0%

299 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Hitesman, Jonathan W.

34.3%

347 cases · 12-month grant rate: 14.4%

Hunter, Denise

82.7%

776 cases · 12-month grant rate: 70.2%

James, Dennis R.

0.0%

3 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Kim, Samuel Y.

93.8%

16 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Levine, Shira M.

92.9%

14 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Maggard, Print

95.2%

1,332 cases · 12-month grant rate: 85.3%

Marcus, Steven

31.0%

29 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Masterson, Jason R.

16.7%

6 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Mcdermott, Ann M.

5.9%

17 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Medved, Paul N.

41.7%

12 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Mullins, Ronald L.

10.0%

50 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Neumeister, William David

80.2%

1,024 cases · 12-month grant rate: 92.9%

Nguyen, An Mai

0.0%

1 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

O'Leary, Thomas Michael

25.0%

4 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Pettigrew, Bayleigh

0.0%

36 cases · 12-month grant rate: 0.0%

Phan, Christopher

48.0%

152 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Phan, Susan

65.7%

1,302 cases · 12-month grant rate: 37.1%

Roberts, Lindsy M.

22.9%

96 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Romig, Jeffrey L.

38.2%

34 cases · 12-month grant rate: —

Scafidi, Andrew

0.0%

2 cases · 12-month grant rate: 0.0%

Sharda, Munish

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