Chase Calder Cleveland
Immigration Judge, Sterling Immigration Court. Appointed November 2024.
Asylum record, FY 2021-2026
TRAC source →- Decisions on the merits
- 632
- Asylum granted
- 67
- Other relief granted
- 8
- Denied
- 557
- Against own court
- +16.5 pts
| FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|
| 80% | 92% |
Docket
Respondents represented by counsel: 77% (nationally, 81% are represented).
Most common nationalities: Honduras (19.5%), El Salvador (18.5%), Guatemala (16.8%), Peru (12.7%), Venezuela (8.2%).
Official biography
Chase Calder Cleveland was appointed as an immigration judge to begin hearing cases in November 2024. Judge Cleveland ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 2006 from the University of Tennessee and a Juris Doctor in 2009 from the Texas Tech University School of Law. From 2023 to 2024, he served as a supervisory appellate attorney for the U.S. Army Government Appellate Division. From 2011 to 2023, he served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Army in the following locations: the U.S. Military Academy, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Fort Cavazos, Texas; and the Military District of Washington, D.C. From 2019 to 2021, he served as a judge advocate with the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York. From 2015 to 2017, he served as a trial defense counsel at Fort Bliss, Texas. From 2010 to 2011, he served as an administrative law attorney at the U.S. Military Academy. From 2012 to 2013 and 2020 to 2021, he deployed to Bagram, Afghanistan, as the officer in charge of the detainee review boards with Task Force 435 and as a brigade judge advocate with the 10th Mountain Division. Judge Cleveland is a member of the State Bar of Texas.
In the record
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Other judges at Sterling
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.