Immigration judge Jennifer A. May
EOIR records Jennifer A. May as a serving immigration judge, code JAM, with 3,095 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 453 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 44 were granted (9.7%) and 409 denied.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 3,095
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 2.2% decided in absentia
- 9,137
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 9.7%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 44 granted of 453 decided
Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2021–2025)
- Every immigration court in the country
- 37.3% granted
- 140,740 of 377,216 asylum applications decided
- The Jena, LA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 15.7% granted
- 522 of 3,335 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 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 44 asylum applications and denied 409 — 9.7% of those decided. A further 204 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Jennifer A. May completed 812 proceedings in FY2025, against 0 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
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 812 | 0 | 17 | 176 | 67 |
| FY2024 | 813 | 50 | 4 | 34 | 51 |
| FY2023 | 818 | 1 | 9 | 70 | 35 |
| FY2022 | 387 | 16 | 14 | 108 | 45 |
| FY2021 | 265 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 6 |
| FY2020 | 576 | 3 | 10 | 62 | 21 |
| FY2019 | 796 | 67 | 10 | 231 | 85 |
| FY2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 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
| Court | Proceedings completed |
|---|---|
| Jena, LA (JNA) | 2,746 |
| Dallas, TX (DAL) | 1,828 |
| Conroe, TX (CIC) | 1,292 |
| Houston, TX (HOU) | 211 |
| Los Fresnos, TX (PIS) | 157 |
| El Paso, TX (EPD) | 150 |
| Oakdale, LA (OAK) | 127 |
| Memphis, TN (MEM) | 97 |
| Harlingen, TX (HLG) | 83 |
| Pearsall, TX (PSD) | 58 |
| Aurora, CO (AUR) | 50 |
| Denver, CO (DEN) | 47 |
| Lumpkin, GA (SDC) | 24 |
| El Paso, TX (ELP) | 21 |
| West Valley, UT (SLC) | 11 |
| Fort Snelling, MN (BLM) | 10 |
| New Orleans, LA (NOL) | 10 |
| Omaha, NE (OMA) | 6 |
| Phoenix, AZ (PHO) | 4 |
| Annandale, VA (WAS) | 4 |
| Boston, MA (BOS) | 2 |
| Florence, AZ (FLO) | 2 |
| Otero, NM (OTO) | 2 |
| Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ) | 1 |
| Houston, TX (HSG) | 1 |
| Miami, FL (MIA) | 1 |
| Portland, OR (POR) | 1 |
| San Diego, CA (SND) | 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