Immigration judge

Benton, Jimmie Lee

Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court

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These figures are not current

Captured September 18, 2026 — about 0 months ago. Decisions made since then are not included.

Lifetime grant rate

5.4%

239 decisions

Grant rate, last 12 months on record

Not reported

Fewer than 25 decisions on record. A percentage drawn from so few decisions would be misleading, so it is withheld rather than shown.

3.6%

Court lifetime average

Grant-rate trend

Each point is the grant rate across the 12 months ending in that month — a rolling window, not a single month on its own. A point appears only where those 12 months hold at least 25 decisions. A rolling window covers a much shorter span than the lifetime figure above, so the two can differ materially; both are correct measures of different periods.

0%25%50%75%100%Sep 2000Jun 2001Mar 2002Dec 2002Sep 2003Aug 2004Month each 12-month window ends0.0%11.4% — 12 months ending Sep 2000 (88 decisions)11.2% — 12 months ending Oct 2000 (89 decisions)11.5% — 12 months ending Nov 2000 (87 decisions)10.6% — 12 months ending Dec 2000 (85 decisions)6.8% — 12 months ending Jan 2001 (74 decisions)5.2% — 12 months ending Feb 2001 (77 decisions)5.6% — 12 months ending Mar 2001 (71 decisions)7.1% — 12 months ending Apr 2001 (70 decisions)6.5% — 12 months ending May 2001 (62 decisions)6.0% — 12 months ending Jun 2001 (67 decisions)3.4% — 12 months ending Jul 2001 (59 decisions)3.2% — 12 months ending Aug 2001 (62 decisions)3.5% — 12 months ending Sep 2001 (57 decisions)1.9% — 12 months ending Nov 2001 (54 decisions)1.9% — 12 months ending Dec 2001 (54 decisions)2.0% — 12 months ending Jan 2002 (51 decisions)2.1% — 12 months ending Feb 2002 (47 decisions)2.4% — 12 months ending Mar 2002 (41 decisions)2.6% — 12 months ending Jul 2002 (38 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Aug 2002 (36 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Sep 2002 (33 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Oct 2002 (29 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Nov 2002 (31 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Dec 2002 (25 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Jan 2003 (28 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Feb 2003 (27 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending May 2003 (25 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Jun 2003 (26 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Aug 2003 (27 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Sep 2003 (26 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Oct 2003 (26 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Dec 2003 (25 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Jan 2004 (26 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Mar 2004 (26 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending May 2004 (25 decisions)0.0% — 12 months ending Aug 2004 (27 decisions)

The line is broken where this record has no decisions for several months. It is left open rather than joined, because joining it would imply decisions that were never recorded.

10 months are not plotted: the 12 months ending there held fewer than 25 decisions.

Same judge name at other courts

This record covers one court only. The same judge name also appears at the courts below, with separate statistics.

Monthly decisions

Showing the most recent 24 months on record. Months with no decisions are not listed.

Decisions and grant rate by month for this judge
MonthDecisionsGrant rate
May 20051Not reported
August 20043Not reported
May 20042Not reported
March 20042Not reported
January 20042Not reported
December 20031Not reported
October 20031Not reported
September 20032Not reported
August 20034Not reported
June 20033Not reported
May 20031Not reported
February 20032Not reported
January 20034Not reported
December 20021Not reported
November 20023Not reported
October 20022Not reported
September 20021Not reported
August 20022Not reported
July 20021Not reported
March 20023Not reported
February 20023Not reported
January 20022Not reported
December 20013Not reported
November 20013Not reported

Source and method

These figures come from case data released by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) under the Freedom of Information Act, published by the Deportation Data Project. Imigrar did not produce or estimate them.

Captured on September 18, 2026, about 0 months ago, so it is out of date. The record covers decisions from October 1997 through July 2026; nothing filed or decided after July 2026 appears here.

Grant rates are historical aggregates. They describe decisions already made. They do not predict the outcome of any individual case, and no figure on this page should be read as a forecast of what will happen in yours.

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