Temporary Appellate Immigration Judge, Board of Immigration Appeals
Attorney General Pamela Bondi appointed Jeb T. Terrien as a Temporary Appellate Immigration Judge in December 2025. Judge Terrien earned a Bachelor of Science in 1994 from the University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor in 1997 from Tulane Law School. From April 2021 to December 2025, he served as a Unit Chief Immigration Judge at the Richmond Immigration Adjudication Center. From 2009 to 2021, he served as a managing assistant U.S. attorney and assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, in Harrisonburg. During that time, from 2014 to 2015, he served as an assistant director with the National Advocacy Center, Office of Legal Education, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, Department of Justice, in Columbia, South Carolina. From 2004 to 2008, he served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, in Cincinnati, and the Northern District of West Virginia, in Martinsburg. From 2000 to 2004, he served as a regional drug prosecutor for the Commonwealth of Virginia in Campbell, Charlotte, and Halifax counties. From 1999 to 2000, he served as an assistant attorney general with the Virginia Attorney General’s Office, in Richmond. From 1998 to 1999, he served as an assistant commonwealth’s attorney with the Accomack County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office in Accomac, Virginia. Judge Terrien is a member of the Virginia State Bar.
Adapted from EOIR’s published biography of this member, read August 8, 2026.