The Honorable Immigration Judge Taylor Gillespie

Hartford, CT Immigration Court
Appointed May 2026 · President Donald Trump Attorney General Todd Blanche
Less than a year on the immigration bench
Appointed under a Republican administration

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Background

The Honorable Immigration Judge Taylor A. Gillespie earned a Bachelor of Arts in environmental sustainability in 2016 from the University of Oklahoma and a Juris Doctor in 2020 from the University of Dayton School of Law. From 2021 to 2024 she served as an assistant district attorney at the Erie County District Attorney's Office in Buffalo, New York, and from 2024 to 2026 as an administrative law judge with the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance in Buffalo. She is a member of the New York State Bar. Judge Gillespie was appointed an immigration judge in May 2026, as part of the class of 77 immigration judges invested by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. This profile was compiled through independent primary-source research drawing on EOIR's class-of-77 biographical release and public records, because a standard individual biography was not published on EOIR's website, which is uncommon. (Assignment note: EOIR officially assigns her to the Boston Immigration Court, including on its current online court locator; the court shown here - Hartford - is where a smaller number of her hearings appear in the case records.)

Caseload & process (since 2021)
11
Completions per year
11 total
0%
Detained at decision
share of cases
10.4 mo
Median time to decision
from case start
0%
Ordered removed in absentia
person absent
0%
Decisions appealed to BIA
appeal rate
Appeals remanded or reversed
This judge has no asylum decisions on the merits in this period (since 2021).
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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).
Hartford, CT · home court
5 (45%)
5 (45%)
1 (9.1%)