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Immigration judge Steven J. Phillips

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

EOIR recorded 8 proceedings completed by immigration judge Steven J. Phillips in the five fiscal years to 2020, according to the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

EOIR records Steven J. Phillips as a serving immigration judge, code SJP, with 8 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2020.

Cases, decisions and backlog

8
Proceedings completed, FY2016–⁠2020: 0.0% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: Not ranked
Asylum grant rate: only 1 decided, under the 100 a rate needs here

This judge decided 1 asylum applications in the five fiscal years to 2020 — 0 granted and 1 denied. That is below the 100 this site needs before it will publish a rate, because at a hundred decisions the interval around one is already about nine points wide. A further 0 ended neither way.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Steven J. Phillips completed 8 proceedings in FY2020, against 0 in FY2017

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.

Source: The Executive Office for Immigration Review

About this chart

The figures

Immigration judge Steven J. Phillips completed 8 proceedings in FY2020, against 0 in FY2017. 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	Asylum denied
FY2020	8	1
FY2019	0	0
FY2018	0	0
FY2017	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 Steven J. Phillips completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	8

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 — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Compiled automatically from EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year and EOIR immigration judges and courts by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 1, 2026