Immigration judge Diane Dodd

EOIR records Diane Dodd as a serving immigration judge, code DED, with 3,818 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 37.6% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

3,818
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 30.8% decided in absentia; 2,182
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 37.6%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 112 granted of 298 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 112 asylum applications and denied 186 — 37.6% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,086 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Diane Dodd, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,237	563	8	81	265
FY2024	1,239	376	17	30	237
FY2023	659	117	37	30	282
FY2022	630	120	47	34	285
FY2021	53	0	3	11	17
FY2020	419	276	9	31	20
FY2019	3	0	0	0	0
FY2018	0	0	0	0	0
FY2017	0	0	0	0	0
FY2016	0	0	0	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

Immigration courts where Diane Dodd completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
New York, NY (NYB)	5,351
New York, NY (NYC)	44
New York, NY (NYV)	10
Houston, TX (HOU)	8
Orlando, FL (ORL)	5
Dallas, TX (DAL)	3
Denver, CO (DEN)	3
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	3
Houston, TX (HSG)	3
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	2
Memphis, TN (MEM)	2
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	2
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	1
Jena, LA (JNA)	1
Newark, NJ (NEW)	1
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	1
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	1
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	1
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	1
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	1
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	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