Immigration judge Robert D. Newberry

EOIR records Robert D. Newberry as a serving immigration judge, code RDN, with 1,042 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2017 and 16.7% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

1,042
Proceedings completed, FY2013–2017: 11.2% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 16.7%
Asylum grant rate, FY2013–2016: 29 granted of 174 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2013 to 2016, this judge granted 29 asylum applications and denied 145 — 16.7% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 103 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Robert D. Newberry, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2017	1	0	0	0	0
FY2016	2	0	1	0	1
FY2015	30	1	0	3	8
FY2014	401	41	10	70	31
FY2013	608	75	18	72	63
FY2012	666	66	18	60	77
FY2011	751	99	14	52	36
FY2010	1,125	144	17	53	67
FY2009	1,214	201	59	46	55
FY2008	1,299	237	56	65	64

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 Robert D. Newberry completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Detroit, MI (DET)	17,666
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	17
Boston, MA (BOS)	12
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	10
Memphis, TN (MEM)	6
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	4
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	3
New York, NY (NYC)	2
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	1
Las Vegas, NV (LVG)	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 September 1, 2026