Immigration judge Paula Dixon

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Paula Dixon
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Paula Dixon as a serving immigration judge, code PAD, with 1,631 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 140 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2024–2025, 44 were granted (31.4%) and 96 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 30.0% at the Otay Mesa, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 31.3% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

1,631
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 0.1% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 31.4%
Asylum grant rate, FY2024–2025: 44 granted of 140 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2024–2025)

Every immigration court in the country: 31.3% granted; 66,847 of 213,694 asylum applications decided
The Otay Mesa, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 30.0% granted; 278 of 928 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 2 fiscal years from 2024 to 2025, this judge granted 44 asylum applications and denied 96 — 31.4% of those decided. A further 72 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Paula Dixon completed 1,285 proceedings in FY2025, against 1 in FY2008

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 Paula Dixon completed 1,285 proceedings in FY2025, against 1 in FY2008. 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	1,285	0	41	81	65
FY2024	346	2	3	15	7
FY2023	0	0	0	0	0
FY2008	1	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

Immigration courts where Paula Dixon completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	1,579
Imperial, CA (IMP)	85
San Diego, CA (SND)	9
Seattle, WA (SEA)	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