Immigration judge J. Dan Pelletier
EOIR records J. Dan Pelletier as a serving immigration judge, code JDP, with 6,165 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2020. Of the 416 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2016–2019, 29 were granted (7.0%) and 387 denied.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 6,165
- Proceedings completed, FY2016–2020
- 21.6% decided in absentia
- 0
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 7.0%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2016–2019
- 29 granted of 416 decided
Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2016–2019)
- Every immigration court in the country
- 34.4% granted
- 56,834 of 165,324 asylum applications decided
- The Atlanta, GA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 3.7% granted
- 73 of 1,999 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 2016 to 2019, this judge granted 29 asylum applications and denied 387 — 7.0% of those decided. A further 679 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge J. Dan Pelletier completed 7 proceedings in FY2020, against 1,526 in FY2011
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
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 878 | 2 | 4 | 77 | 35 |
| FY2018 | 1,901 | 79 | 2 | 82 | 411 |
| FY2017 | 1,582 | 518 | 13 | 121 | 108 |
| FY2016 | 1,797 | 734 | 10 | 107 | 124 |
| FY2015 | 1,502 | 577 | 5 | 48 | 92 |
| FY2014 | 872 | 214 | 0 | 20 | 65 |
| FY2013 | 824 | 131 | 11 | 34 | 74 |
| FY2012 | 971 | 128 | 12 | 43 | 77 |
| FY2011 | 1,526 | 147 | 13 | 37 | 124 |
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
| Court | Proceedings completed |
|---|---|
| Atlanta, GA (ATL) | 13,806 |
| Atlanta, GA (ATD) | 4,566 |
| Lumpkin, GA (SDC) | 2,850 |
| Newark, NJ (NEW) | 42 |
| Memphis, TN (MEM) | 40 |
| Charlotte, NC (CHL) | 36 |
| Orlando, FL (ORL) | 23 |
| Los Fresnos, TX (PIS) | 22 |
| Otero, NM (OTO) | 14 |
| Adelanto, CA (ADL) | 7 |
| Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ) | 6 |
| New Orleans, LA (NOL) | 6 |
| Miami, FL (MIA) | 5 |
| Pearsall, TX (PSD) | 5 |
| Chicago, IL (CHI) | 4 |
| San Antonio, TX (SNA) | 4 |
| San Diego, CA (SND) | 4 |
| Los Angeles, CA (WLA) | 3 |
| Florence, AZ (FLO) | 2 |
| Imperial, CA (IMP) | 2 |
| Baltimore, MD (BAL) | 1 |
| Detroit, MI (DET) | 1 |
| El Paso, TX (ELP) | 1 |
| Harlingen, TX (HLG) | 1 |
| Houston, TX (HOU) | 1 |
| Houston, TX (HSG) | 1 |
| Jena, LA (JNA) | 1 |
| Miami, FL (KRO) | 1 |
| New York, NY (NYC) | 1 |
| Philadelphia, PA (PHI) | 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