Immigration judge J. Daniel Dowell
EOIR records J. Daniel Dowell as a serving immigration judge, code JDD, with 8,149 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 14.6% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
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Cases, decisions and backlog
- 8,149
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 12.2% decided in absentia
- 10,931
- Proceedings pending at 2026-09
- 14.6%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 43 granted of 295 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 43 asylum applications and denied 252 — 14.6% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,753 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 2,489 | 2 | 34 |
| FY2024 | 1,948 | 5 | 30 |
| FY2023 | 1,806 | 15 | 87 |
| FY2022 | 1,248 | 19 | 44 |
| FY2021 | 658 | 2 | 57 |
| FY2020 | 784 | 8 | 136 |
| FY2019 | 1,378 | 6 | 235 |
| FY2018 | 1,164 | 22 | 311 |
| FY2017 | 1,045 | 15 | 61 |
| FY2016 | 1,387 | 1 | 4 |
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
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