Judge Dufresne, Jill H.

Hearing cases: hearings are scheduled

Last hearing: December 21, 2012
Next hearing: June 24, 2027 · 28 scheduled in all
Last decision: August 19, 2021

Courts worked at: 9

Hearings scheduled here

OMAHA — IMMIGRATION COURT1995—1997 · 73 hearings

Worked here before

BUFFALO — IMMIGRATION COURT2012—2012 · 23 hearings
BALTIMORE — IMMIGRATION COURT1988—2011 · 33,837 hearings
FLORENCE — IMMIGRATION COURT2009—2009 · 47 hearings
PHILADELPHIA — IMMIGRATION COURT1994—2006 · 487 hearings
ELIZABETH — IMMIGRATION COURT2001—2006 · 399 hearings
HARTFORD — IMMIGRATION COURT1996—2003 · 572 hearings
DETROIT — IMMIGRATION COURT1996—2001 · 28 hearings
NEW YORK — IMMIGRATION COURT1996—1997 · 33 hearings

The periods overlap, and that is not an error: a judge hears cases at a new court while still closing out old ones at the previous one. Each row answers "when did this judge work here", not "from when to when did they serve here".

Status is derived from the court calendar: whether the judge has hearings scheduled after the release cutoff. The EOIR release carries no personnel data, so retirement, removal, elevation to the BIA and extended absence cannot be told apart — only what the data shows is stated here. Hearings are scheduled two to three years out, so an empty calendar for a working judge is rare; for judges who went quiet in the last few months it may still be an artifact of the cutoff, which lags by about a month. The lookup table's "active" flag is not used: it disagrees with the calendar for a third of judges.

43%

Asylum grant rate

of 2,172 decisions · FY1989–FY2014

95% interval: 41% — 45%

granted:: 930
denied:: 1,242

How this percentage is calculated

Grant rate = granted / (granted + denied). Administrative closures, withdrawals, abandonment and "not adjudicated" are excluded from the denominator. The unit of count is a decision per proceeding, not per application: applicants almost always file asylum, withholding and CAT protection together. Withholding and CAT grants are counted separately from asylum. U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

How this compares

This judge43% (2,172)
The whole court — BALTIMORE — IMMIGRATION COURT40% (36,574)
All U.S. courts33% (1,350,724)

This comparison does not adjust for which cases a judge was given: judges see different nationalities, different shares of detained respondents, and different rates of legal representation. A difference in percentages does not by itself mean identical cases were treated differently.

Trend by fiscal year

U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

Years with fewer than 10 decisions are not plotted (3): at that sample size the percentage is noise. They remain in the table.

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Grant rate by fiscal year
Period	decisions	granted	95% interval
FY2011	1	0%	0% — 79%
FY2010	25	60%	41% — 77%
FY2009	89	46%	36% — 56%
FY2008	111	39%	30% — 48%
FY2007	147	46%	38% — 54%
FY2006	288	56%	50% — 61%
FY2005	230	54%	47% — 60%
FY2004	248	33%	28% — 39%
FY2003	235	35%	29% — 42%
FY2002	222	26%	21% — 32%
FY2001	190	34%	28% — 41%
FY2000	143	59%	51% — 66%
FY1999	165	48%	41% — 56%
FY1998	53	43%	31% — 57%
FY1997	19	21%	9% — 43%
FY1995	4	0%	0% — 49%
FY1989	2	0%	0% — 66%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationality	decisions	granted	95% interval
CAMEROON	368	36%	31% — 41%
ETHIOPIA	361	51%	46% — 56%
CHINA	106	32%	24% — 41%
CONGO	103	46%	36% — 55%
TOGO	97	38%	29% — 48%
SOMALIA	91	42%	32% — 52%
EL SALVADOR	73	7%	3% — 15%
ERITREA	63	73%	61% — 82%
GUATEMALA	61	23%	14% — 35%
GUINEA	55	31%	20% — 44%
IVORY COAST (COTE D'IVOIRE)	48	42%	29% — 56%
PAKISTAN	46	57%	42% — 70%
LIBERIA	46	50%	36% — 64%
COLOMBIA	37	76%	60% — 87%
NIGERIA	35	26%	14% — 42%

How long a case takes

How long it took from service of the NTA to the decision on the application, for the cases this judge has already finished.

12 mo

median

half of cases: 8—20 mo

based on 2,172 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2009	89	18 mo	9—38
FY2008	111	20 mo	14—33
FY2007	147	15 mo	9—28
FY2006	288	18 mo	11—28
FY2005	230	12 mo	10—21
FY2004	248	11 mo	8—17
FY2003	235	11 mo	8—18
FY2002	222	9 mo	7—14
FY2001	190	11 mo	8—16
FY2000	143	12 mo	8—18

Duration runs from the NTA date (charging document served) to the decision on the application. Median, not mean: the distribution has a long right tail. Cases decided this year may have begun a decade ago, so duration by year of decision is not a forecast for a case filed today.

The queue

Cases with no decision yet. A different figure from the duration of completed cases: quick cases leave the queue first, so the long ones accumulate among those still waiting.

1
cases waiting: 10 mo
already waited, median

Half have waited between 10 mo and 10 mo.
1 (100%) have a hearing scheduled later than the date this data was collected. The rest have no upcoming event in the release.

The queue counts proceedings with no decision in the release. The figure runs from the NTA date to the release cutoff — it is how long people have already waited, not how much longer they will. Shown separately: how many have a hearing scheduled after the cutoff. The rest have no upcoming event in the release and should not be read alongside live cases.

What became of appeals to the BIA

An immigration judge's decision can be appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals. This is what the Board did with those appeals. A high share of reversals and remands tells a different story than a low grant rate alone.

What became of appeals to the BIA
BIA decision	Appeals
Denied	544
Dismiss Appeal/Affirm IJ's Decision	529
Remand	420
Summary Affirmance	287
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD	123
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)	114
Termination	72
Background Check Remand	61
Withdrawal of Appeal	55
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)	49
Summarily Dismiss	47
Sustain	45
Other	38
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	32
Temporary Protected Status	30
Granted	30
Grant with no Remand	14
Dismiss as Untimely	11
Terminate-DHS PD	6
Moot Bond	5
Deferred Enforced Departure	3
Continued	2
SUMMARY DISMISSAL - BOTH (a) & (e)	1
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief	1
Administratively Closed-DHS PD	1

Data comes from the monthly EOIR Case Data release (U.S. DOJ FOIA Library). This service is not affiliated with the U.S. government and does not provide legal advice. The data lags by roughly a month; for current case status use ACIS and Respondent Access. The source is known to have missing records, including relief applications — absent data does not mean it is absent from your case.