Jeffrey T. Sprague

Jeffrey Sprague was appointed as an immigration judge to begin hearing cases in March 2026. Judge Sprague ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 1999 from Virginia Military Institute and a Juris Doctor in 2006 from Louisiana State University. From February 2020 to February 2026, he served as an adjudications counsel and hearing officer with the Office of Chief Counsel, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Department of Transportation. During this time, from December 2021 to June 2022, he also served a cross-modal detail assignment with the Federal Aviation Administration as an enforcement attorney, where he litigated civil penalty claims against unruly air line passen gers. From January 2018 to February 2020, he was a trial attorney with the Civil Division, Torts Branch, CSTL/Vaccine Litigation Section, Department of Justice. From August 2006 to January 2018, he was a staff attorney with the Department of Veterans Affairs, and he also served an appointment as an acting veteran's law judge from January to March 2017. Prior to law school, Judge Sprague served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force from 1999 to 2003, where he was a missile combat crew commander for the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System (ICBM) at Minot AFB, North Dakota. Judge Sprague is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

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