Immigration judge Robert E. Coughlon

EOIR records Robert E. Coughlon as a serving immigration judge, code REC, with 3,487 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2020 and 20.6% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

3,487
Proceedings completed, FY2016–2020: 9.3% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 20.6%
Asylum grant rate, FY2016–2020: 27 granted of 131 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2016 to 2020, this judge granted 27 asylum applications and denied 104 — 20.6% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 325 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Robert E. Coughlon, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2020	2	0	0	1	0
FY2019	684	174	9	48	99
FY2018	509	95	13	34	50
FY2017	950	54	5	11	84
FY2016	1,342	1	0	10	92
FY2015	743	1	1	28	70
FY2014	921	3	9	28	94
FY2013	652	57	31	36	244
FY2012	550	58	49	32	220
FY2011	30	1	1	0	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 Robert E. Coughlon completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Florence, AZ (FLO)	3,754
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	1,304
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	1,232
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	67
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	34
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	17
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	8
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	6
San Diego, CA (SND)	5
Tucson, AZ (TUC)	4
El Paso, TX (ELP)	3
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	2
Dallas, TX (DAL)	2
Orlando, FL (ORL)	2
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	2
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	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 · Public domain. Information on Department of Justice websites is in the public domain unless otherwise indicated. · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026