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Cassie A. Thogersen

Immigration Judge, Oakdale Immigration Court. Appointed October 2018 by Jeff Sessions.

Asylum record, FY 2021-2026

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Judge Thogersen92.8%
Oakdale court81.9%
All judges nationally62.9%
Decisions on the merits
153
Asylum granted
5
Other relief granted
6
Denied
142
Against own court
+10.9 pts
Denial rate by fiscal year
FY24FY25FY26
91%98%96%

Read from TRAC's chart to the nearest point. Years with fewer than 25 decisions are not shown.

Docket

Respondents represented by counsel: 56% (nationally, 81% are represented).

Most common nationalities: Russia (13.1%), Mexico (12.4%), Honduras (9.8%), China (3.9%).

Official biography

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Cassie A. Thogersen to begin hearing cases in October 2018. Judge Thogersen ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 1993 from Southeastern Louisiana University, a Master of Social Work in 1996 from Washington University, and a Juris Doctor in1999 from the University of Wisconsin Law School. From 2014 to 2018, she served as deputy chief counsel, and from 2008 to 2014 as an assistant chief counsel, in the Office of Chief Counsel, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security in Oakdale,Louisiana. From 2001 to 2008, she served as a senior attorney advisor in the Office of General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Rockville, Maryland. Thisexperience included, in 2006, a detail as a special assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. From 1999 to 2001, she was a policy analyst in the Divisionof Regulatory and Legal Affairs, Indian Health Service, HHS, in Rockville, Maryland. Judge Thogersen is a member of the Louisiana State Bar.

As published by the Executive Office for Immigration Review at appointment, via TRAC.

In the record

No published reporting or appellate decisions naming this judge have been collected yet.

Other judges at Oakdale

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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.