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The Honorable Immigration Judge Rosalind K Malloy

Philadelphia, PA Immigration Court
Appointed December 1998 · President Bill Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno (AG inferred from date)
Appointed under a Democratic administration
57.1%
of asylum claims granted on the merits
Based on 35 asylum decisions (grants + denials) since 2021. Fewer than 50 — treat this figure with caution.
This judge 57.1% National 31.8% Court 38.3%

Does a lawyer matter here?

Asylum grant rate by whether the person had legal representation.
With a lawyerrepresented · n=35
57.1%
Without a lawyerunrepresented
no data

Background

The Honorable Immigration Judge Rosalind K. Malloy earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1964 from Hunter College, a Master of Arts in 1971 and a Master of Education in 1975 from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Juris Doctor in 1979 from Rutgers University. She worked as an assistant district attorney in New York (1984-1989), in private practice in Atlanta (1990-1993), and as an assistant district counsel with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York (1995-1998). She was appointed an immigration judge in December 1998, initially serving at the Los Angeles Immigration Court before Philadelphia, and is a member of the New York and Georgia Bars.

Asylum grant rate over time

Each point is that calendar year's grant rate, back to 2015 where the judge was deciding cases — the longer career view. Dashed grey line = current national average (31.8%). Headline rates above use 2021 – today.
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%2015: 72.2% · n=3672.2%20152016: 86.7% · n=3086.7%20162017: 70% · n=5070%20172018: 44.3% · n=11544.3%20182019: 34.8% · n=13834.8%20192020: 33.9% · n=11233.9%20202021: 57.1% · n=2857.1%20212022: 66.7% · n=666.7%20222023: 0% · n=10%2023

Grant rates by type of relief

Share granted among merits decisions for each application type.
Asylum
57.1% n=35 Too few cases
Withholding / CAT
44.1% n=34 Too few cases
Cancellation — 42B (non-LPR)
97.8% n=45 Too few cases
Adjustment of status (245)
100% n=3 Too few cases
Voluntary departure
100% n=1 Too few cases

Courts where this judge has decided cases

Hearing locations for cases this judge completed since 2021, by number of decisions. Many judges hear cases from more than one court (detained facilities, video dockets, or reassignments).
Philadelphia, PA · home court
587 (99%)
Caseload & process (since 2021)
148
Completions per year
590 total
1.4%
Detained at decision
share of cases
19.8 mo
Median time to decision
from case start
19.4%
Ordered removed in absentia
person absent
1.9%
Decisions appealed to BIA
appeal rate
Appeals remanded or reversed
only 3 appeals — too few
How these numbers are calculated & important limitations

Source. U.S. Department of Justice EOIR immigration court records, released under FOIA (data through 2026-06-01), packaged as a public DuckDB database. The same underlying records used by TRAC and the Deportation Data Project. Judge appointment dates and appointing Attorneys General are compiled separately from EOIR/DOJ biographies.

Asylum grant rate. Grants ÷ (grants + denials) among asylum applications decided on the merits, for decisions completed since 2021. Cases that were withdrawn, abandoned, administratively closed, or not adjudicated are excluded.

Bond decisions. From EOIR's bond (custody redetermination) records since 2021. "Granted" = bond amount decreased, release on own recognizance, or amelioration granted; "denied" = no change, no bond set, amelioration denied, or denied as moot. Withdrawn requests, jurisdictional denials, and bond increases are excluded from the grant rate. Decision codes follow the Deportation Data Project codebook; EOIR's own DHS "initial bond" field is unreliably filled and is not used. The median bond reflects decisions where the judge set or adjusted a dollar amount.

Representation. A person is counted as "represented" if a respondent's attorney (EOIR-28) appeared at the court level.

The map & appointing party. Each state is shaded by the mix of appointing administrations of the immigration judges currently sitting at the court(s) covering that state — blue where more were appointed under Democratic administrations, red where more under Republican ones. States with no immigration court of their own are drawn with diagonal stripes and take the mix of the court(s) with administrative control over them, per EOIR's administrative control list (e.g., Montana, Idaho, and Alaska → Portland, OR; Wyoming → Denver; the Dakotas → Fort Snelling, MN; Mississippi is split between Memphis and New Orleans). EOIR defines control by DHS district offices and detention facilities rather than clean geographic lines, so in states with several courts the map does not draw internal boundaries; instead the hover and state pages break the numbers down court by court. Where the control list assigns dockets by custody status, each court is labeled non-detained, detained (courts sitting at or primarily serving detention facilities and Service Processing Centers), or all cases; which court hears a given case depends on custody status and where DHS filed it. Party is taken from the appointing Attorney General (or President). This is emphatically not a measure of how judges rule. Appointing administration is a weak-to-nonexistent predictor of individual case outcomes, and judges appointed by any administration span the full range of grant rates. The map is offered only to show the composition of the bench, not to forecast decisions.

Courts where a judge decides & WebEx links. The list of a judge's hearing locations counts the courts (EOIR base city) on that judge's completed cases in the period. Internet-based hearing (WebEx) links and telephonic access codes are reproduced from EOIR's public Find an Immigration Court page and apply only to parties with a scheduled hearing.

Guardrails. Every figure shows its sample size and a confidence label (High ≥200, Moderate 50–199). A rate based on fewer than 50 merits decisions is still shown but marked with a icon meaning it is statistically unreliable and should not be read as a stable pattern.

  • These are past patterns, not predictions. They cannot tell you how a specific case will be decided.
  • This is not a judge-shopping tool. Respondents generally cannot choose their judge.
  • Judges hear different mixes of cases (detained vs. not, nationalities, represented vs. not), which strongly affect outcomes and are not fully controlled for here.
  • The most recent months are incomplete; recent-year figures may shift as more records are released.
  • Government data contains coding errors and omissions; small differences between judges may not be meaningful.