Immigration judge John W. Davis

EOIR records John W. Davis as a serving immigration judge, code JWD, with 2,752 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2024 and 26.5% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

2,752
Proceedings completed, FY2020–2024: 2.4% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 26.5%
Asylum grant rate, FY2020–2024: 69 granted of 260 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2020 to 2024, this judge granted 69 asylum applications and denied 191 — 26.5% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 247 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge John W. Davis, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2024	166	6	2	4	24
FY2023	411	19	12	33	29
FY2022	432	31	5	5	54
FY2021	538	9	17	37	51
FY2020	1,205	0	33	112	89
FY2019	1,781	2	11	82	88
FY2018	1,639	1	4	153	119
FY2017	1,468	3	4	100	185
FY2016	1,082	2	1	33	108
FY2015	330	0	1	26	8

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 John W. Davis completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	20,334
Aurora, CO (AUR)	8,563
Tucson, AZ (TUC)	4,157
Denver, CO (DEN)	1,304
Florence, AZ (FLO)	590
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	278
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	133
El Paso, TX (EPD)	58
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	32
San Diego, CA (SND)	28
Chicago, IL (CHI)	23
Detroit, MI (DET)	13
Las Vegas, NV (LVG)	11
West Valley, UT (SLC)	5
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	4
Otero, NM (OTO)	4
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	3
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	2
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	1
El Paso, TX (ELP)	1
Kansas City, MO (KAN)	1
New York, NY (NYC)	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