Appellate Immigration Judge, Board of Immigration Appeals
Attorney General William P. Barr appointed Keith E. Hunsucker as a member of the Board of Immigration Appeals in August 2019. Judge Hunsucker earned a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in 1984 from the University of Akron and a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, in 1987 from the University of Akron School of Law. From January 2025 to May 2025, he served as the Acting Chief Immigration Judge. From August 2019 to January 2025, Judge Hunsucker served as an Appellate Immigration Judge. From September 2017 to August 2019, he served as an Immigration Judge at the Cleveland Immigration Court and from August 2010 to September 2017, he served as an Immigration Judge at the Port Isabel Immigration Court. From 2000 to August 2010, he worked as a senior instructor for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Legal Division, Department of Homeland Security, in Glynco, Georgia. From 1992 to 2000, he worked as an attorney for the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), in Atlanta. From 1989 to 1992, he was an attorney for the former INS in Harlingen, Texas. From April 1989 to September 1989, Judge Hunsucker was a law clerk for the Ohio Court of Appeals, 9th Judicial District. From 1988 to 1989, he was in private practice. From 1987 to 1988, Judge Hunsucker worked as an attorney for the former INS, entering on duty through the Attorney General’s Honors Program, in San Francisco. Judge Hunsucker is a member of the Ohio State Bar and District of Columbia Bar.
Adapted from EOIR’s published biography of this member, read August 8, 2026.