Andrew Hewitt
Immigration Judge, Atlanta W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court. Appointed February 2023.
Asylum record, FY 2021-2026
TRAC source →- Decisions on the merits
- 220
- Asylum granted
- 8
- Other relief granted
- 6
- Denied
- 206
- Against own court
- +11.2 pts
| FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|
| 89% | 97% |
Docket
Respondents represented by counsel: 57% (nationally, 81% are represented).
Most common nationalities: Venezuela (23.2%), Mexico (18.6%), Colombia (13.2%), Honduras (9.5%), Haiti (9.1%).
Official biography
Andrew J. Hewitt was appointed as an Immigration Judge to begin hearing cases in February 2023. Judge Hewitt earned a Bachelor of Arts in 2006 from Michigan State University and a Juris Doctor in 2012 from the Georgia State University College of Law. From 2016 to 2022, he served as an assistant chief counsel and deputy chief counsel with the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in Atlanta. From 2012 to 2016, he was an immigration attorney in private practice with the law firm Socheat Chea PC in Duluth, Georgia, where he also handled cases on a pro bono basis. Judge Hewitt is a member of the State Bar of Georgia.
In the record
Immigration officers intensify arrests in courthouse hallways on a fast track to deportation
Reports that Atlanta Immigration Judge Andrew Hewitt, a former ICE attorney appointed in 2023, challenged and partly resisted an ICE lawyer's efforts to dismiss removal cases to fast-track deportations, denying some dismissal requests and calling the government's reasoning circular.
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Court page →About these figures. Denial rates describe outcomes in the cases a judge happened to hear, which differ by detention, nationality and representation. They are not a measure of fairness or competence. Method and sources are on the judges index.