Immigration judge Elizabeth A. Hacker

EOIR records Elizabeth A. Hacker as a serving immigration judge, code EAH, with 6,650 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2013 and 32.5% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

6,650
Proceedings completed, FY2009–2013: 2.2% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 32.5%
Asylum grant rate, FY2009–2013: 83 granted of 255 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2009 to 2013, this judge granted 83 asylum applications and denied 172 — 32.5% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 114 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Elizabeth A. Hacker, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2013	116	0	3	8	3
FY2012	1,224	2	8	46	32
FY2011	1,566	15	8	29	13
FY2010	1,776	29	28	33	21
FY2009	1,968	102	36	56	45
FY2008	1,776	170	58	46	54
FY2007	1,233	193	37	99	41
FY2006	1,282	216	42	149	77
FY2005	1,341	297	13	151	82
FY2004	1,540	413	30	138	141

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 Elizabeth A. Hacker completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Detroit, MI (DET)	25,015
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	41
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	14
New York, NY (NYC)	6
Chicago, IL (CHI)	3
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	2
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	2
Annandale, VA (WAS)	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