Immigration judge Alison M. Brown

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Alison M. Brown
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Alison M. Brown as a serving immigration judge, code ABM, with 2,797 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2021. Of the 396 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2017–2020, 67 were granted (16.9%) and 329 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 14.7% at the Cleveland, OH court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 31.4% across every immigration court in the country.

What these figures are, and what they are not

None of this measures how this judge decides. Represented and unrepresented applicants have very different outcomes and a judge’s mix of the two is not the judge’s doing; so is the share of their docket that is detained, and detention courts grant asylum at a fraction of the rate other courts do. EOIR publishes representation in a table this site has not loaded, and nothing here adjusts for either.

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate. Across EOIR’s whole file there are more of those than there are grants and denials together.

Proceedings, not people, and a case can carry several. The figures below count proceedings and asylum applications, which are both larger than the number of people involved. Pending is a snapshot as of September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

2,797
Proceedings completed, FY2017–2021: 23.9% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 16.9%
Asylum grant rate, FY2017–2020: 67 granted of 396 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2017–2020)

Every immigration court in the country: 31.4% granted; 64,867 of 206,378 asylum applications decided
The Cleveland, OH court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 14.7% granted; 297 of 2,023 asylum applications decided

For the reader to weigh, not a measure of this judge: everything in the box above applies to these rates as well, and a court’s docket is not any one judge’s.

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2017 to 2020, this judge granted 67 asylum applications and denied 329 — 16.9% of those decided. A further 470 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Alison M. Brown completed 4 proceedings in FY2021, against 855 in FY2012

Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.

U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year

The figures behind this chart

Immigration judge Alison M. Brown completed 4 proceedings in FY2021, against 855 in FY2012. Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2021	4	0	0	0	1
FY2020	37	3	1	17	10
FY2019	898	223	7	157	176
FY2018	876	190	23	96	142
FY2017	982	253	36	59	141
FY2016	1,078	232	35	71	187
FY2015	1,168	313	23	40	146
FY2014	674	139	19	47	71
FY2013	874	72	22	65	113
FY2012	855	84	47	64	105

Complete fiscal years only. A proceeding is counted in the year it completed, which is not the year it was recorded, so this table is not a record of what arrived.

Where the proceedings were

Immigration courts where Alison M. Brown completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	8,716
Conroe, TX (CIC)	25
Otero, NM (OTO)	14
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	5
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	4
Houston, TX (HOU)	4
San Diego, CA (SND)	4
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	3
El Paso, TX (ELP)	2
Hartford, CT (HAR)	2
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	2
Chicago, IL (CHI)	1
Detroit, MI (DET)	1
Jena, LA (JNA)	1
New York, NY (NYC)	1
Orlando, FL (ORL)	1
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	1
West Valley, UT (SLC)	1
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	1

The courts where EOIR records this judge completing proceedings, which is not the same as the courts they are assigned to: a judge is assigned to a median of three at once and as many as 72, and an assignment is not a posting.

Sources

EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026