Brent H. Landis
Immigration Judge, Houston - Greenspoint Park. Appointed October 2018 by Jeff Sessions.
Asylum record, FY 2021-2026
TRAC source →- Decisions on the merits
- 680
- Asylum granted
- 30
- Other relief granted
- 18
- Denied
- 632
- Against own court
- +3.5 pts
| FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93% | 91% | 92% | 94% | 95% |
Docket
Respondents represented by counsel: 77% (nationally, 81% are represented).
Most common nationalities: Honduras (32.8%), El Salvador (12.8%), Cuba (12.2%), Mexico (11.2%), Venezuela (9.3%).
Official biography
Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Brent H. Landis to begin hearing cases in October 2018. Judge Landis earned a Bachelor of Science in 1982 from Metropolitan State Universityand a Juris Doctor in 1985 from DePaul University. From 2000 to 2018, he was a senior attorney with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in Phoenix. From 1989 to 2011, he was an attorney with the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Air Forcein the following locations: Luke Air Force Base, Arizona; Air Reserve Personnel Center,Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico; and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. From 1986 to 1987, he was a staff attorney with Levine, Shifrin &Associates in Schaumburg, Illinois. Judge Landis is a member of the Illinois State Bar and Colorado State Bar.
In the record
"How Can You Throw Us Back?": Asylum Seekers Abused in the US and Deported to Harm in Cameroon
HRW report identifies Judge Brent Landis, sitting in Jena, Louisiana, as having a 96 percent asylum denial rate and as the judge who adjudicated the most cases among interviewed deported Cameroonians, describing instances where he denied hearings or ruled without addressing evidence-access problems.
Other judges at Houston - Greenspoint
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.