Immigration judge Howard R. Davis

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Howard R. Davis
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Howard R. Davis as a serving immigration judge, code HRD, with 3,343 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 481 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2022–2025, 393 were granted (81.7%) and 88 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 71.4% at the San Francisco, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 37.3% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

3,343
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 18.2% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 81.7%
Asylum grant rate, FY2022–2025: 393 granted of 481 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2022–2025)

Every immigration court in the country: 37.3% granted; 130,518 of 349,694 asylum applications decided
The San Francisco, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 71.4% granted; 16,564 of 23,214 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 2022 to 2025, this judge granted 393 asylum applications and denied 88 — 81.7% of those decided. A further 992 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Howard R. Davis completed 1,290 proceedings in FY2025, against 91 in FY2016

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 Howard R. Davis completed 1,290 proceedings in FY2025, against 91 in FY2016. 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
FY2025	1,290	393	96	51	288
FY2024	1,256	161	151	25	385
FY2023	736	53	145	12	285
FY2022	40	0	1	0	19
FY2021	21	0	0	0	15
FY2020	11	5	0	1	0
FY2019	11	3	0	4	1
FY2018	24	0	0	0	6
FY2017	52	0	0	0	23
FY2016	91	1	0	0	33

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 Howard R. Davis completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	4,233
El Paso, TX (ELP)	8
Van Nuys, CA (VNS)	5
Concord, CA (CCC)	4
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	4
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	3
Laredo, TX (LRO)	3
Santa Ana, CA (SNC)	3
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	2
Imperial, CA (IMP)	2
Miami, FL (MIA)	2
Sacramento, CA (SMO)	2
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	1
Conroe, TX (CIC)	1
Houston, TX (HGP)	1
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	1
Houston, TX (HOU)	1
New York, NY (NYB)	1
New York, NY (NYC)	1
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	1
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	1
Portland, OR (POO)	1
San Diego, CA (SND)	1
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