Immigration judge David C. Whipple
EOIR records David C. Whipple as a serving immigration judge, code DCW, with 6,142 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 44.9% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 6,142
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 35.2% decided in absentia
- 5,296
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 44.9%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 70 granted of 156 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 70 asylum applications and denied 86 — 44.9% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,464 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 1,592 | 17 | 29 |
| FY2024 | 1,544 | 8 | 23 |
| FY2023 | 1,306 | 19 | 14 |
| FY2022 | 1,153 | 18 | 9 |
| FY2021 | 547 | 8 | 11 |
| FY2020 | 615 | 8 | 35 |
| FY2019 | 1,092 | 20 | 69 |
| FY2018 | 1,147 | 20 | 32 |
| FY2017 | 322 | 0 | 6 |
| FY2016 | 77 | 0 | 0 |
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
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